WORLD HISTORY

RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

MAJOR EVENTS IN PRE REVOLUTION RUSSIA

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
During what war did Lenin implement his “War Communism” in which he took over sole control of the war effort and the means of production?
A
Russian Civil War
B
World War I
C
World War II
D
War of the Roses
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -War Communism, in the history of the Soviet Union, economic policy applied by the Bolsheviks during the period of the Russian Civil War (1918–20). More exactly, the policy of War Communism lasted from June 1918 to March 1921.

Detailed explanation-2: -War communism or military communism (Russian: , Voyennyy kommunizm) was the economic and political system that existed in Soviet Russia during the Russian Civil War from 1918 to 1921.

Detailed explanation-3: -War Communism was the first version of the Soviet planned economy. It aimed to abolish private trade, control labour, nationalize all large-scale industry, and at its height in 1920 to replace the money system with a universal system of state rationing.

Detailed explanation-4: -Faced with an economic crisis, the communist government in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR) introduced War Communism in an effort to take charge of the economy, and to establish a structured socialist economy. The Red Army and industrial workers were fed with food confiscated from capitalists.

Detailed explanation-5: -The term “war communism” usually refers to the period from mid-1918 to early 1921 when the Bolsheviks were attempting to consolidate power while fighting a brutal Civil War.

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