Bolshevik Consolidation of Power : ECONOMIC (2)


	New Economic Policy 1921-1928
	Causes Concessions to the peasants needed for survival of the regime Kronstadt Rebellion	Effects Grain Requisitioning abolished - 'tax in kind' , could sell surplus grain Ban on private trade removed - food and goods flow more easily between countryside and towns. Rationing abolished. Money economy BACK ! Small businesses reopened - goods e.g shoes clothes available for sale State control - large scale heavy industries e.g coal -------------------------------------------- 1923 - cereal production increased by 23% compared w/ 1920 scissor crisis - industrial goods price increase (short supply), food prices falling Rise of Nepmen (private traders) - Showed their wealth ( brothels, restaurants) NEP + Peasants : not producing enough grain - exports suffered Agriculture remained backwards , gap between grain and peasant desired goods , peasants held back their grain NEP + Urban workers : Unemployment rose steeply , wages remained low , women = forced to move from skilled to unskilled jobs + pushed out when Red Army demobilised , increasing crime rates , poor quality housing + overcrowding Grain crisis 1927-1928 (STALIN) : The Urals- Siberian method - grain requisitioning backed up by emergency measures . Relationship between gov and peasants broke down
	Overall summary NEP seen as a betrayal by old Bolsheviks , Generally worked better than war communism

Grain Requisitioning abolished - 'tax in kind' , could sell surplus grain
Ban on private trade removed - food and goods flow more easily between countryside and towns. Rationing abolished. Money economy BACK !
Small businesses reopened - goods e.g shoes clothes available for sale
State control - large scale heavy industries e.g coal
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1923 - cereal production increased by 23% compared w/ 1920
scissor crisis - industrial goods price increase (short supply), food prices falling
Rise of Nepmen (private traders) - Showed their wealth ( brothels, restaurants)
NEP + Peasants : not producing enough grain - exports suffered Agriculture remained backwards , gap between grain and peasant desired goods , peasants held back their grain
NEP + Urban workers : Unemployment rose steeply , wages remained low , women = forced to move from skilled to unskilled jobs + pushed out when Red Army demobilised , increasing crime rates , poor quality housing + overcrowding
Grain crisis 1927-1928 (STALIN) : The Urals- Siberian method - grain requisitioning backed up by emergency measures . Relationship between gov and peasants broke down

NEP seen as a betrayal by old Bolsheviks , Generally worked better than war communism

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