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Dmytro Ostapenko d.ostapenko@latrobe.au

Bolshevik’s Economic Policies in 1917–1921. Dmytro Ostapenko d.ostapenko@latrobe.edu.au. Presentation outline. Russia’s economic development in the pre-Revolution period Bolshevik's economic policies in November 1917-June 1918 Bolshevik's economic policies in June 1918 – March 1921.

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  1. Bolshevik’s Economic Policies in 1917–1921 DmytroOstapenko d.ostapenko@latrobe.edu.au

  2. Presentation outline • Russia’s economic development in the pre-Revolution period • Bolshevik's economic policies in November 1917-June 1918 • Bolshevik's economic policies in June 1918 – March 1921

  3. http://users.humboldt.edu/ogayle/hist111/BalanceofPower.html

  4. How did Russia change over the period of 1861-1917?

  5. Per Capita GDP ($), 1913 Paul Gregory, Before Command: An Economic History of Russian from Emancipation to the First Five-Year Plan, 1994, p. 19.

  6. Marx’s five stages of historical development • 1.Primitive Communism • 2.Slave Society • 3.Feudalism • 4.Capitalism • 5.Socialism (proletarian revolution) • 6.Communism: a classless and stateless society.

  7. October 1917 – June 1918, attempts to maintain mixed economy. Land decree, November 1917, Vladimirov, I, Peasants loot landlord’s property http://petroart.ru/art/v/vladimirov/art1.php SerovV. Land Decree http://www.mglin-krai.ru/images/Baturko_Ocherk/T19/Dekret_o_Zemle.jpg

  8. October 1917 – June 1918, attempts to maintain mixed economy. , • Decree of workers’ control, November 1917 • Decree on the nationalisation of the banks, December 1917 • Decree on the VSNKh (Supreme Economic Council of National Economy), December 1917

  9. June 1918-March 1921, attempts to maintained a tough control over economy and trade (War Communism), Main causes of the change - Food shortages in large cities The effect of the Brest-Litovsk treaty Civil War Transport problems

  10. http://www.answers.com/topic/czech-legion

  11. War Communism policy Decree on Prodrazvyorstka, January 1919. Grain requisitioned by the state 1918/1919 — 1,7 mil tons; 1919/1920 — 3,4; 1920/1921 — 6

  12. Ivan, Vladimirov, Prodrazvyorstka, http://petroart.ru/art/v/vladimirov/art1.php

  13. AnatoliyNasedkin, Prodotryad (Food Squad), http://rushist.clow.ru/4/information/096.html

  14. War Communism policy • Decree on the nationalisation of large-scale industry and railways, June 1918 • Banning private trade • Abolition of money as a means of exchange • Militarisation of labour

  15. Failure of the War Communism? The State control of all industry and agriculture (though inefficient in many ways) gave the Red Army (3 million men) the supplies it needed, thus helping the Bolsheviks to win the Civil War.

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