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Lenin favored it, because he instituted it right after the October Revolution. War communism did not impose full socialism or communism on all aspects of Russia's economy. The Bolsheviks were simply too weak in numbers to immediately govern the entire economy of Russia with its millions of peasant farmers. Nor were they able to take full control of all the factories and other industry in the country. When the Russian Civil War broke out, the Bolsheviks were even less able to handle the economic demands of fighting the war. For this reason, war communism was instituted by Lenin in order to enable the Bolsheviks to survive the Civil War in power. War communism was later scrapped in favor of Lenin's New Economic Policy.
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Whose ideas about communism did Lenin adapt?
Lenin adapted Karl Marx's ideas about communism and socialism although with some differences. After the Revolution and during the Russian Civil War, Lenin imposed a socialist system in place of the former capitalist system and he imposed what was called 'war communism' on the country.
Was Vladimir Lenin a communist?
Yes, Lenin was a communist, although his ideas on how a country should become communist were not the same as Karl Marx's ideas. Lenin often deviated from strict Marxist ideology in order to accomplish his personal agenda.
Why do you think that many europeans favored communism after world war 2-?
Europeans did not favor communism after world war 2. Communism was forced on the people of Eastern Europe by thd Soviets.
Do you agree that Lenin had succeeded in establishing a communist regime in the USSR by the time of his death in 1924?
Yes to a certain point, Lenin ended war communism and Capitalism was kind of introduced to get the economy back on track , but he intended to reintroduce full communism before his death occured
Who developed the soviet New Economic Policy?
Vladimir Lenin started the New Economic Policy in an attempt to improve the Soviet economy.
