Topic 2-Industrial and Agricultural change 1917-85

Question 1

What was the economy like when the Bolsheviks took over in 1917?

Answer 1

Chaos

Question 2

What did the Bolsheviks believe for the economy as communists? Was this effective to ensure economic progress?

Answer 2

Believed that all aspects of the economy should be in the hands of workers and peasants. However this proved to be ineffective to ensure economic progress

Question 3

What did the WW1 devastation mean for consumer goods?

Answer 3

Meant that there weren’t enough consumer goods to distribute equally

Question 4

By 1928 what economy had Stalin decided was needed?

Answer 4

Command Economy

Question 5

What is a Command Economy?

Answer 5

One that is controlled and directed by the state. Its common in communist economies where businesses and industries are owned by the state in the interests of the people

Question 6

What is State Capitalism?

Answer 6

Term given when there is a transitional stage between the old bourgeois economy and a new proletarian one

Question 7

What were the key measures of Lenin’s initial economic policy?(Decrees)

Answer 7

-The Land Decree: October 1917 abolished private ownership of land which was now the hand of ‘the people’. Giving them control over the land thy farmed and worked.
-The Decree on Worker’s Control: November 1917 placed control of the factories into the hands of the industrial workers

Question 8

What was set up in December 1917?

Answer 8

Vesenkha which is the Supreme Council of the National Economy and was set up to provide greater supervision of the economy