war communism

• when was war communism

  1918 - 1921
• • Emergency programme during the civil war.

  • Failure of 'State capitalism' - workers took control of factories, set own hours & levels of production. This was failing to meet demands of regime and CW

  • Growth of barter & black market

  • Economic Policy put in place by the Bolsheviks - focused all of economy on fueling the Red Army to win the Civil War.

  • Ideologically fitting-purest communist policy

  • Communist used propaganda - 5000 political posters - anti-Whites - Tsarists, foreign intervention etc.
• war communism failed as workers were unmotivated causing a fall in industrial and raw materials production
• workers attacked and killed many managers and experts
• Lenin saw that war communism wasn't working so came up with the NEP mainly for the peasants