Agriculture and industry - Lenin

• Production decline


  • Industrial workforce declined from 2.6million (1917) to 1.2 million (1922)
  • Mass poverty due to grain requisitioning killed 6 million
  • 60% of food was acquired from the black market
• NEP


  • Popular with peasants
  • End of grain requisitioning
  • Free market put back in place
• Party debates


  1. Left=Trotsky, Right=Bukharin

  2. Lenin argued 'one step back, two steps forward'
• Industrial decline


  • 1926-28 economy reached a plateau, there was enough money to reopen old factories but not build new ones
  • Scissors crisis: gap between farmers wages and the cost of agricultural equipment
• Nationalisation


  1. Early decrees

  2. State capitalism (1918) made use of bourgeois experts but also did large scale nationalisation
• NEP


  • Free market re-introduced
  • Monetary system brought back
• War communism


  • All businesses taken over by the state
  • Monetary collapse
• War communism:

  Political crisis

  -          Tambov peasants and Kronstadt sailors rebellions

  Production decline

  -          Industrial workforce declined from 2.6million (1917) to 1.2 million (1922)

  -          Mass poverty due to grain requisitioning killed 6 million

  -          60% of food was acquired from the black market

  Ideological victory

  -          All businesses taken over by the state

  -          Monetary collapse