Today we are going to look at War Communism in more detail. We are also going to see how Lenin abandoned true socialist principles by introducing a New Economic Policy when he realized how unpopular War Communism was.
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Let’s first see exactly what War Communism involved…
War Communism. (2:49 minutes long)
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The information about “War Communism”, p.22.
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Now, let’s see what the New Economic Policy, or N.E.P., involved…
The N.E.P. (1:11 minutes long)
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The information about “The New Economic Policy” , p.22.
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Stick the fill-in worksheet on War Communism into your book and then follow the instructions below:
… about “War Communism”.
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Stick the fill-in worksheet on the N.E.P. into your book and then follow the instructions below:
… about the “New Economic Policy”.
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The answers are in the video below.
War Communism and the NEP notes. (2:42 minutes long)
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The Kronshtadt Rebellion of March 1921 convinced Lenin of the need to retreat from full socialist principles – to abandon the policy of War Communism – in order to maintain the Communist party’s hold on power. Accordingly, at the 10th Party Congress in March 1921 the measures of a New Economic Policy was introduced.
Just more than a year later, “in May 1922, Lenin suffered the first of three strokes, which left him unable to speak for weeks, and severely hampered motion in his right side. By June, he had substantially recovered; by August he resumed limited duties, delivering three long speeches in November. In December 1922, he suffered the second stroke that partly paralyzed his right side, he then withdrew from active politics. On March 10, 1923, Lenin’s health was dealt another severe blow when he suffered the third stroke, this one taking away his ability to speak and concluding his political work. Lenin was mute and bed-ridden until his death but officially remained the leader of the Communist Party.”
“This last photo shows Vladimir Lenin in a wheelchair after suffering three stokes in the previous two years. By the end he was paralyzed and completely mute. Beside him is his sister Anna Ilyinichna Yelizarova-Ulyanova and one of his doctors A. M. Kozhevnikov.”
“Vladimir Lenin died at 18:50, Moscow time, on 21 January 1924, aged 53, at his estate at Gorki settlement (later renamed Gorki Leninskiye). In the four days that the Bolshevik Leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin lay in state, more than 900,000 mourners viewed his body in the Hall of Columns.”
Lenin’s “corpse was embalmed and placed in a mausoleum on Moscow’s Red Square. Lenin’s mummified body has been on display there ever since, except for a four-year period during World War II when it was moved to Siberia.”
(The information above is quoted from https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/)
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Vladimir Lenin – a short overview…
Death of Vladimir Lenin. (3:37 minutes long)
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Finally, read the information on the worksheet about War Communism and the New Economic Policy: Then, compare War Communism and the New Economic Policy by completing the table on the worksheet.
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