General Disintergration
3 important questions on General Disintergration
How did Bolshevik industrial policies exacerbate industrial collapse and rampant inflation?
- Worker control of factories were not successful economically and exacerbated the economic collapse in Russia
- Moreover, ad hoc nationalisation of industry did little to ahlt the catastrophic economic decline
Why did general economic disintegration help strengthen Bolshevik urban control?
- Hunger and unemployment meant workers led to the countryside; eg. 1919 Petrograd stood at 30% of its original population
- This reduced the ability of opposition groups (Mensheviks and Socialist Revolutionaries) to mount effective resistance to Bolsheviks in major cities
What is a historiographical quote which emphasises that Russian economic chaos helped keep the Bolsheviks in power in 1918?
Edward Acton "The processes which atomised [the Bolsheviks'] constituency of 1917 also prevented the emergence of a coherent popular movement against it"
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