The comparison of the Bolsheviks economic policy – the “Red Guards” attack on capital and the “War communism”

1. The comparison of the Bolsheviks economic policy – the “Red Guards” attack on capital and the “War communism” 

The comparison of the
Bolsheviks economic policy –
the “Red Guards” attack on
capital and the “War
communism”
Гуцевич Никита
Группа 2110

2. The “Red Guards” attack on capital (1917 – 1918)

“Factories to the Workers!”
State control over the national economy by
speeding up nationalization in industry and
introducing the monopoly on foreign trade
Centralization
Abolishment of the private ownership of land
“Food dictatorship”

3. War communism (1918 – 1921)

Strong centralization
Liquidation of commodity and money relations;
Nationalization of industry;
Monopoly on foreign trade;
Labor duty and labor mobilizations;
The emergence of prodrazverstka.

4. The comparison Similarities:

Centralization
Monopoly on
foreign trade
Militarization of
labor
Abolishment of
the private
ownership of
land
The “Red
War communism
Guards” attack
on capital
Strong centralization
Full monopoly on foreign trade
Militarization of labor
Abolishment of the private
ownership of land

5. The comparison Differences:

Nationalization
Nationalization of big part of Full nationalization of the
the industry and other
industry and many other
spheres of economy. Goal
spheres of economy
was to make the process of
nationalization quicker
Freedom and rights of the
people
Freedom and rights of the
people were impaired
Liquidation of commodity
and money relations
Start of the process of
Liquidation of commodity
liquidation of commodity and and money relations
money relations
Actions to get supplies and
food
Attitude to labor force
“Food dictatorship”
Freedom and rights of the
people were heavily
impaired. Bolsheviks
destroyed all those who were
against their politic
Prodrazverstka
“Factories to the Workers!” – Labor duty and labor
workers were inspired by the mobilizations. Idleness was
ideas of Bolsheviks
punishable by law

6. Used resources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_communism
http://historykratko.com/politika-voennogo-kommunizma
http://www.allrussias.com/soviet_russia/beginnings_2.asp