1. How successful was the New Communist State?
New Economic Policy
War Communism- countryside-118 uprisings
cities-shortages, black market
Kronstadt mutiny
NEP-Peasants fixed and sold surplus
Factories less 20 workers profit
Coal iron steel banks and transport kept by gvt
Trade increased and food-Nepmen
Communists grumbled betrayal
Organisation of the State
Communist Party in the Soviet Union CPSU
Politburo- 7-9 members daily
Central committee 30-40
Congress- representatives city and regions
Parties- City and Provincial and Local
Governed
Sovnarkom Lenin chairman
Smaller committees
Comintern- foreign concerns revolution
Cheka- Red Terror
How successful was the New Communist State?
Life under Communism
Women- Marriage divorce,
maternity leave, abortion,
Civil marriages 2/3 divorce in Moscow
70% marriages ended by men
Workers
Employment- women, 8 hr day Wages no strikes
Politics- 1 party, women elected
Education- schools compulsory 9 No homework or discipline
Youth- boy scouts 15 yr olds over
Religion- taxed, no property, no
Relig ed in schools,
Culture- propaganda films, news paper Pravda Art music Russian no conductors
Centralisation
Industry- 80%
Banks- Sovnarkom
Transport-
Foreign Trade-
Power struggle
Propaganda and censorship-
Pravda no other papers not Bolshevik
1922 deport writers
Pre 1922 literature censored
Assassination attempts on Lenin
Stroke in 1922 May, Lenin’s testament
Stalin- took over- photos of Trotsky removed
Friends of Stalin appointed
Politburo supports Stalin
Funeral Lenin without Trotsky- Stalin looked
After Lenin in last years.
Leader. New country, centralised