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Lenin developed war communism because the Bolshevik revolution was not a true communist revolution as Karl Marx would have it. In addition, the control of the government by the Bolsheviks was not as widespread or secure as would be necessary to control all aspects of Russia's economy. After the October Revolution, the Russian Civil War broke out and the Russian economy was worse then than it had been under the Tsar.
"War communism" was simply the forced takeover of only large businesses leaving small ones to remain capitalistic. The real problem was the enormous agrarian peasant population. The Bolsheviks could not take over all the small farms in the country, so it forced farmers to sell at low prices large portions of their crops to the government. The peasant farmers were thus permitted to remain capitalist in the sense that they were working for themselves first, but were "taxed" into turning over their crops to the government. After the Civil War, widespread dislike for war communism caused Lenin to adopt his New Economic Policy.
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Did Lenin favor or oppose war communism?
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.
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.
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.
