HIST 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: War Communism, Kulak, Machine Tool
28 Mar 2014
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In a previous lecture we left off with civil war and the nep wars under lenin. Nep/1920"s: after all the violence, famine and starvation of the civil war, lenin felt like it was necessary to normalize the state and society, this included downplaying war communism, the requisitioning of grain, price controls. Instead they felt like they had to focus on winning the peasantry and making bolsheviks instead of imposing hardship on them. The civil war had left a lot of trauma with famine and starvation, and epidemics of disease. 20 million died, industry, agriculture, and currency collapsed, unemployment sky rocketed. The three questions of the nep were: how to win the peasantry, how to regain productivity, how to continue the revolution when no one knew what bolshevism was. May 1922 lenin has a stroke and his health begins to decline. This left the problem of succession (marx had never figured that out).
