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  ::War Communism::
War Communism was the name given to the economic system that existed in Russia from 1918 to 1921.
War Communism was introduced by Lenin to combat the economic problems brought on by the civil war in Russia.
One of the first measures of War Communism was the nationalisation of land.
www.historylearningsite.co.uk /war_communism.htm   (1403 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
WAR COMMUNISM IS generally considered to be the overall policy of the Soviet government from the late spring of 1918 until early 1921.
Others view War Communism as originating in a series of emergency measures introduced to deal with the increasingly difficult economic and military situation, but which was then justified in ideological terms.
Alec Nove stands in between these two interpretations, and considers that the drift into War Communism was due to the chronic decline and chaos in the industrial sector, and to the collapse of food supplies to the cities, and he warns against interpreting the regime’s "ideological garb" for their actions as a preconceived plan.
www.johndclare.net /Russ6_WarCommunism.htm   (823 words)

  
 War Communism in Retrospect   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
War Communism brought into the open and accelerated many of the problems that were posed by the very nature of a soviet-style regime.
Whilst many of the features of War Communism were unavoidable while the Civil War was occurring, the Bolsheviks would have benefited had they implemented them in a less coercive and bureaucratic manner, although it is a moot point as to how far centralisation and coercion could have been relaxed without endangering the Soviet regime.
Nevertheless, it must be said that the effects of War Communism upon Soviet society in general and the party-state apparatus in particular both influenced the form in which that process took place, and helped to undermine the opposition within the Communist Party that attempted to combat the bureaucratic trends during the 1920s.
www.whatnextjournal.co.uk /Pages/Back/Wnext5/Warcomm.html   (5997 words)

  
 Poland's Century: War, Communism and Anti-Semitism
Poland did not share the spoils of war; it was in many senses one of the victims of war.
After examining the treatment of Poland throughout the Second World War, she focuses on the establishment of Communism and anti-Semitism in Poland in the years after the war.
Analyse the symbolism of Auschwitz for the Polish and the Jewish communities.
www.fathom.com /course/72809602/index.html   (464 words)

  
 Lenin and the First Communist Revolutions, VII
It was at this point that the Bolsheviks economic policies from 1918-1921 were dubbed "War Communism," and declared to have been a temporary expedient forced upon Lenin's government by wartime conditions.
As Pipes explains, "War Communism as a whole was not a 'temporary measure' but an ambitious and as it turned out premature attempt to introduce full-blown communism." (The Russian Revolution) As noted earlier, Lenin's ideas on desirable economic policy were vague at best.
But the greatest crime committed by Lenin's regime was the civil war the Soviet government waged against the peasantry, and the famine this war precipitated.
www.gmu.edu /departments/economics/bcaplan/museum/his1g.htm   (1947 words)

  
 John Kerry and the Mystical War Against Communism - Third Superpower
Communism was not a threat to our country and the war was not moral.
Or that the political commitment to repulse communism in Vietnam, a commitment that troubled Mr.
Reagan had been re-elected in a thunderous landslide in November of 1984 and was using his administration to help the contra armies destabilize the Sandinista government of Nicaragua as part of a global strategy to give the tottering communist empire a final shove.
www.thirdsuperpower.com /previously/2004/02/19/12/15   (1253 words)

  
 WHKMLA : History of Russia : War Communism, 19170-1921
Most goods of daily consumption were strictly rationed - Russia had gone through World War I and now was in the middle of a CIVIL WAR.
The problem was that peasants (who still owned their family farms) were given no incentive to produce any surplus; the production fell, and there was not enough grain/bread to feed Russia's population.
War Communism had failed; in 1921 it was replaced by Lenin's NEW ECONOMIC POLICY.
www.zum.de /whkmla/region/russia/warcomm.html   (320 words)

  
 Museum of Communism FAQ
The study of Communism and webpage design have been two of his long-time avocations; unless otherwise stated, he is the sole author of all material in the Museum of Communism.
The purpose of the Museum of Communism is to for Communism what the Holocaust Memorial Museum does for Nazism: namely, to educate the public about mass murder, widespread slave labor, and other human rights violations committed by Communist regimes.
Communism is, he explains, "the positive transcendence of private property, or human self-estrangement, and therefore the real appropriation of the human essence by and for man...
www.gmu.edu /departments/economics/bcaplan/museum/comfaq.htm   (13899 words)

  
 EefyWiki - 22c: War Communism
To the Communists, Russia was an isolated island in a capitalist sea.
To stay in power, the Communists resorted to a program called "War Communism." It was based on the principle that during class war, the ends always justified the means.
If even the Communists' early supporters were deserting them, it was a clear sign that War Communism had outlived its usefulness.
eefy.editme.com /L22c   (906 words)

  
 Smurfed: Marxism message, Re: [Marxism] War Communism and 1921 Famine
: Re: [Marxism] War Communism and 1921 Famine
War Communism would never had been adopted if there had not been War.
But some souces claim that it was smurfily the "siezure of seeds" in 1920 that caused the famine.
websmurfer.devnull.net /cgi-bin/translator.cgi?mode=smurf&url=http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2006w29/msg00040.htm   (245 words)

  
 War Communism
During the Civil War the government decided to introduce what became known as War Communism.
War Communism took away a lot of the freedoms that Russians had gained as a result of the October Revolution.
Vladimir Lenin justified this policy by claiming that these measures were necessary in order to defeat the White Army.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /RUSwar.htm   (305 words)

  
 CHINA
During the Korean War Chinese communist soldiers had fought and killed 50,000 Americans.
This documentary does an excellent job of depicting the horrors of Chinese communism and its insidious spread by secret agents.
This program covers the path of resistance to communism in countries east of the Iron Curtain.
www.weirdvideos.com /china.html   (389 words)

  
 Communist Voice -- a journal of revolutionary theory -- www.communistvoice.org
The day will come when revolutionary communism is once again the banner of the militant proletariat in struggle for its liberation.
Material concerning the supposed "cooperative anarchy" of Seattle Ben, his anti-Marxist vision of a future society where disagreements are solved "like in a war", has now been posted here.
The transitional period between capitalism and communism (including the question of "state capitalism under workers' rule")
home.flash.net /~comvoice   (845 words)

  
 March of the Titans A History of the White Race   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Most importantly of all, revealed in this work is the one true cause of the rise and fall of the world's greatest empires - that all civilizations rise and fall according to their racial homogeneity and nothing else - a nation can survive wars, defeats, natural catastrophes, but not racial dissolution.
The Rise of the Tsars - Russia to 1917 - Nordic origins and race wars with Asiatics in pre-Communist Russia
Appendix 3: The Holocaust Analyzed: The Holocaust has been used since the end of the Second World War to suppress debate on race - here the veracity of the key tenets of the Holocaust are discussed.
www.stormfront.org /whitehistory   (2049 words)

  
 Book TV.org
Generals in Bronze: Interviewing the Commanders of the Civil War
The War of the World: Twentieth Century Conflict and the Descent of the West
The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism
www.booktv.org   (381 words)

  
 LeftBehind.com: The Left Behind Book Series - Jerry Jenkins & Tim LaHaye - Home
You won't want to miss Joel's exclusive interviews with Israeli, Palestinian, and Russian leaders, and his analysis of previously classified CIA and White House documents.
Commentator Dennis Prager suggests why he chooses to judge the participants and not the religion when people blame religion for violence.
The game puts players in command of an apocalyptic battle between the Tribulation Forces and the Global Community Peacekeepers during the End of Days raging in the streets of New York City.
www.leftbehind.com   (1636 words)

  
 war communism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
:: Cold War Guide :: Glossary :: war communism
Policy of the Bolshevik regime during the Civil War 1918-21, in which the country s economy was almost totally directed toward equipping and maintaining the Red Army.
The Cold War Guide By Blackhole (C) 1998-2005
www.cold-war.info /glossary/war-communism.html   (53 words)

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