treatment of peasants

• famine 1921

  5 million died due to war communism
• complete shutdown of the Russian railway system caused by the civil war
• kulaks were blamed for hoarding grain
• new work discipline

  • introduction of Rbkrin in February 1920
  • under the communists was a backward step
  • hours were long by modern standards, pay was relatively low and the enforcement was harsh
  • fines were used as a punishment for petty wrongdoings which was especially disliked by workers
  • workers were threatened by being purged especially if they were considered to be anti-revolutionary
  • officials claimed that certain workers were intent on disrupting production by damaging machinery or purposely working slowly to prevent the implementation of the five year plans
• Rabkrin 


  worker and peasant inspector
• bolsheviks brought in laws to improve working conditions to illustrate that they were the workers party