THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION - STATE CAPITALISM

Question 1

STATE CAPITALISM (APRIL 1918)
* Controls SOME property, resources, money, etc...

• Political system…
• State has control of the production…
• PRI
• In order to EXPAND…

Answer 1

• Political system (Proposed by Lenin)
• The state has control of the production and the USE of capital…(Economics, Politics, Finances, Government)
• Commence the Post-Revolutionary INDUSTRIALIZATION
• EXPANDING Capital

Question 2

STATE CAPITALISM: DECREES

“THE EXPERTISE OF BOURGEOIS SPECIALISTS WAS NECESSARY IN THIS TRANSITIONAL PHASE OF SOCIALISM”

Answer 2

• Decree on Land
• Decrees on Banks (Nationalized)
• Decree on Workers’ control of Factories (Control of key industries - Putilov Steel Factory).
• The workers control the mean of production

Question 3

COMMANDING HEIGHTS OF THE ECONOMY

• Control and guide…
• Under Soviet power…

Answer 3

• Control and guide the rest of the economy under SOVIET power (All power to the Soviets)

Question 4

ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES / STRENGTHS

• …Could not arm all… (Economically weak)
• … Key factories
• … Control the means of production…

Answer 4

WORLD WAR ONE
- When fully mobilized: Russia could not arm all its soldiers with weapons

CIVIL WAR (1917 - 1921)

• Economically weak
• TBL: loss of productive territory
• Food shortages
• Transport problems

STRENGTHS
- Key factories (Putilov Steel factory) was controlled by the Workers. They controlled the mean(s) of production

Question 5

DEFINITION: VSNKh

• SCNE
• Central body…
• December…
• Manage and coordinate….

Answer 5

• Supreme Council of the National Economy
• Central body to coordinate economic activity
• 2 December 1917
• Manage and coordinate workers’ committees and company management boards

Question 6

THE FALL OF STATE CAPITALISM

• Social and economic turmoil…
• Fearing the total collapse of…
• Workers increasingly…
• Dispossessing the former owners…
• Away from a mixed economy…

SOLUTION (Lenin)

• Soon instituted a far more MILITARIZED and STATE-DIRECTED economy

Answer 6

• Deepening social and economic turmoil
• Fearing the total collapse of production
• Workers increasingly forced the matter by taking FULL control of their workplaces and dispossessing the former owners (without waiting for official approval)
• The workers were pushing the government away from a mixed economy
• LENIN: who was a keen believer in discipline and centralized authority
• Soon instituted a far more MILITARIZED and STATE-DIRECTED economy