The transformation of Russian industry, in the years 1917 to 1941, was achieved through the application of socialist/Marxists principles

Question 1

what was state capitalism

Answer 1

• abolished private ownership of land in 1917
• declared all land belonged to the ‘entire people’
• gave workers control over their own factories

Question 2

why state capitalism failed 1917

Answer 2

• Lenin spoke out against the danger of moving too quickly he envisioned a ‘long transition’
• veshenka was established to supervise economic development
• some in his party wanted Lenin to set up nationalisation- taking business out of private hands and placing under state control

Question 3

what was proletarianisation

Answer 3

-to turn the mass population into urban workers this would allow the creation of the socialist man

Question 4

the stakhanovite movement (1935)

Answer 4

-a miner in 1935 extracted 102 tonnes of coal in 5 hrs and 45 min normally excepted in 14 times that length of time

Question 5

what was war communism

Answer 5

• Lenin faced a grain crisis
• food requisitioning
• encouraged peasants used a pooling system to farm more effectively as a collective
• only a tiny minority of households complied

Question 6

why war communism failed

Answer 6

-only made possible through the use of repressive measures against the population contradicting socialist Marxist approach - food requisitioning