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Lenin’s Policies

Lenin’s Policies. 1921-24 War Communism NEP Terror. How successful was Lenin in building Communism in Russia?. “In six months we will build communism in Russia“ By the end of 1920 peace had been made with Poland and foreign troops left Russia.

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Lenin’s Policies

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  1. Lenin’s Policies 1921-24 War Communism NEP Terror

  2. How successful was Lenin in building Communism in Russia? “In six months we will build communism in Russia“ • By the end of 1920 peace had been made with Poland and foreign troops left Russia. • 1920-21 peasant uprisings over grain requisitioning and strikes in cities. • Government policy and drought in 1921 caused the worst famine in 30 years.

  3. War Communism 1918-21 • The government took direct control of economic life • Nationalized industry – factories were to produce war goods • The Cheka were sent out to seize grain from the countryside to feed workers • Many peasants produced less grain as a result • Red Terror – Cheka became brutal

  4. 1921 – The Year of Crisis • Results of War Communism

  5. Kronstadt Mutiny 1921 Naval base whose sailors helped in the Bolshevik seizure. Members of the base called for new elections for a Soviet Gov. Most at the base were peasants who knew what had happened in the fields. Trotsky sent the troops to recapture the island base. 10,000 Red Army troops were killed. Rebels were either executed or sent to the first Gulags 1921 – The Year of Crisis

  6. 1921 – The Year of Crisis • New Economic Policy, 1921 “Let the peasants have their little bit of capitalism as long as we keep the power” Lenin: 10th Party Congress Policy comprised: • End of grain requisitioning • Peasants paid 10% of their crop as a tax • Reintroduction of a free market • Legalization of small businesses • Commanding heights of economy to remain in state control – Heavy industry, transport and banking

  7. Electrification Foreign Trade Manufacturing

  8. Lenin’s Death, 1924 • January aged 53 • Strokes from 1922 • Petrograd renamed Leningrad • But Lenin left something behind…

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