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Why did Lenin compromise between the ideas of capitalism and communism in creating the NEP?
Officially unknown but many predict it was to smoothen the ideological transition
Who brought communism into Russia?
Lenin brought state capitalism to Russia, not Communism.
What was Lenin's compromise between the ideas of capitalism and communism?
Lenin's New Economic Policy was a temporary measure instituted in order to rebuild the Russian economy. It permitted peasant farmers to grow crops for personal profit and permitted small businesses, typically those with fewer than 10 employees, to operate for profit. After years of "war communism" during the Russian Civil War, the Russian economy was worse off than it had been under the final years of the Tsarist regime. Many hard-line Bolsheviks felt this was capitulating to capitalism but Lenin stated it was simply taking two steps forward and one back.
Why was the communist system created by Lenin and Stalin seen as a rejection of Western capitalism?
Communism is an economic system almost the opposite of capitalism. Capitalism is the ownership of property and the means of production and wealth is in the hands of private entities. Communism is ownership of property and the means of production by the government and wealth shared with all.
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
Which ideology thought the means of production should be owned exclusively by the state?
The ideology of state capitalism, as in Lenin’s view.
Is capitalism and communism the same and why?
No. Communism in the sense Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky and others have meant it is in almost no way imaginable similar to capitalism, aside from the fact that both are better than the systems that came bfore them. Capitalism is better than feudalism and communism is better than capitalism. Communism in the sense most people mean it, Stalinism, has some more things in common with capitalism, both are very repressive and bureaucratic for example.
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.
Marx would have approved of communism in the Soviet Union under Lenin and Stalin?
I really don't think so. Russia never reached the stage of capitalism and we're talking 50-100 years here(could be less). Marx believed in the transformation of capitalism to socialism when it has reached it's height and then to communism.
How was Lenin views of communism different from Marx's theorie?
Unlike Marx, Lenin believed in a small, controlling central government. In this regard, his "people's commissariat" eventually adopted the classic autocratic form of government, ironically one of the major flaws that Marx found with capitalism. Lenin also believed that Russia was a "special case" and could skip over both the Capitalist and Socialist systems, jumping directly from Feudalism to Communism. This was what differentiated Lenin's Bolshevik party from the Menshevik party that said that Marx's four "stages of history" were required everywhere to reach Communism.
What was Lenins original view toward property ownership?
Lenin's view toward property ownership was that it had to be abolished if capitalism were to be eliminated and socialism (and later communism) successfully imposed on the society. As Karl Marx had said the essence of capitalism is the private ownership of property. Abolish private ownership of property and you abolish capitalism. One of the very first things Lenin did after the Revolution was to abolish the private ownership of property and vest it in the state.
How did Lenin try to improve Russia's economy in 1921?
Lenin did away with "war communism" in favor of his "New Economic Policy", which permitted some aspects of capitalism in small businesses and agriculture while retaining the rest of the economy under government control.
