horses used for military and livestock killed diets
repression and violence
Ukrainian villages wiped out
rape and murder
massacre (pogroms) against Jews by the Whites
continuous trading in black market
urban inhabitants travel to countryside to barter goods for produce
Tambov Revolt 1921
peasant army against grain requisitioning and famine
Tambov revolt events
Bolsheviks attacked by Union of Toiling Peasants led by Antonov; killed in 1922; 240,000 peasants gone
Bolshevik reaction to Tambov revolt
used the Red Army and Cheka of 100,000 troops to shoot and used chemicalweapons; newspapers glorified usage of poison gas for rebels hiding in forest; set up 7 concentration camps, 50,000 people
significance of Tambov Revolt
possessed a lot of land towards Moscow
not easily squashed - 300,000 miles SE of Moscow and pushed Bolsheviks to brutal approach of chemicals
70,000 rebels vs 100,000 Red Army
NEP
ended grain requisitioning and could sell surplus grain therefore earned profit; ended ban on private trade therefore nepmen got economy moving
NEP impact
They were able to earn profit, and increase pace of agricultural production which ended 1921 famine. However, food prices dropped because so much food grew which risked peasants hoarding grain
Scissor-Crisis impact countryside
Low prices for crops meant farmers earned less which reduced their incentive to grow more (just like during war communism when they didn't see the point in farming as their grain was gonna be seized anyways).
