Zusammenfassung der Ressource
State Capitalism
- 6-8 months
- Some central control of economy, private markets remained
- Lenin feared that the workers were not
ready for socialism and things should move
slowly
- Workers were uneducated,
lacked management skills
- Output dropped, inflation rose due to lack of goods
- Peasants didn't sell surplus grain as money was worthless, so
cities struggled for food, Petrograd February 1918 citizens had
50g of bread per day
- To facilitate centralised control- Veshenka was set up December 1917 to supervise/control economic development