Western Civilization II / Unit 15 WC2 1412 short lesson, about 20 seconds
War Communism to the New Economic Policy
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The idea
War Communism, grain requisitions and nationalization, won the Civil War and wrecked the economy; by nineteen twenty-one the harvest was a third of normal. Lenin retreated to the New Economic Policy: peasants sold surplus, small private trade returned, the state kept banks and heavy industry.
In practice
An arts renaissance and rising living standards.
Where people slip
A sailors' rising of twenty-one is disclosed, not named.
Your place on the trail
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