WORLD WAR I
CAUSES AND COURSE OF THE WAR
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Marxist-Leninism
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Socialism in One Country
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Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom
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War Communism
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Strength through Unity
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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: -Pre-history Karl Marx and other early communist theorists believed that hunter-gatherer societies as were found in the Paleolithic through to horticultural societies as found in the Chalcolithic were essentially egalitarian and he, therefore, termed their ideology to be primitive communism.
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: -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.
Detailed explanation-5: -War communism has often been described as simple authoritarian control by the ruling and military castes to maintain power and control in the Soviet regions, rather than any coherent political ideology.