Tenth Party Flashcards
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Tenth Party Congress
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- 8-16 March 1921
- Factionalism within the party around 1920
- Workers Rights (Kollontai)
- Foreign Policy (Trotsky)
- Economic policy (Stalin)
- Party leadership (Stalin and Trotsky)
- Lenin considered the factions an “unnecessary distraction given the crises they faced in 1921”. (Corin and Fiehn)
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Two Decrees from 10th Party
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- At the Tenth Party Congress introduced two decrees
- ‘On Anarcho-Syndicalist Deviation’
- To push own demands were illegal and expulsion was consequence
- ‘On Party Unity’
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The NEP
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- 8 March 1921
- Response to the Kronstadt Revolt and the Tambov Revolt
- Zinoviev and Bukharin supported it
- Stalin saw it as enriching ‘greedy peasants’
- Some believed it marked a ‘New Exploitation of the Proletariat
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Features of NEP
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- Grain Requisitioning abandoned
- ‘tax in kind’ imposed (peasants paid a tax in the form of grain)
- Markets and private trading legalised
- Foreign trade restarted
- Rationing phased out
- Cash wages reinstated
- Military-style workplace policies abandoned
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Result of NEP
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- Created new social class of wealthy entrepreneurs/businessmen labelled ‘nepmen’
- Industries saw reasonable success
- Economy stabilised
- Grain production back to 1907-1913 levels
- Strikes less frequent
- Heavy trade stagnated and foreign lending did not occur
- Led to high cost of manufactured goods
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The Scissor Crisis
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- 1932: prices for industrial goods was high and increasing whilst prices for grain was decreasing
- Fear it would lead to another food shortage
- Trotsky describe it as the open blades of a pair of scissors
- Peasant ‘tax in kind’ replaced with a monetary tax
- Encouraged the sale on grain
- Price controls on industrial goods prevented inflation
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Lenin’s ‘On Party Unity’
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- End of factionalism
- Factions were now banned
- Once a policy was decided by the Central Committee, all were expected to agree
- Lenin purged the party of ‘radishes’ (red on the outside, white on the inside)
