How The Bolshevik Revolution Changed The Role Of Communism In Russia

The Soviet government to come to power after the Tsar Nicholas decided to leave the throne after all of the uprisings and the revolts of the people. The man that had taken power after these things was Vladimir Lenin. Early in its beginning, the Soviet Union had wanted to achieve peace among all the people of all countries. The original mindset of the state was primarily based on the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Marx said that economic state of capitalism would be changed to a socialist state, which is called pure communism, and political systems would have to go through a change in which the current Prior to the revolution, the Bolshevik doctrine of democratic centralism argued that only a tightly knit and secretive organization

During the Civil War, the Bolsheviks adopted War communism, which entailed the breakup of the landed estates and the forcible seizure of agricultural surpluses. In the cities there were intense food shortages and a breakdown in the money system. Many city dwellers fled to the countryside - often to tend the land that the Bolshevik breakup of the landed estates had transferred to the peasants. Even small scale "capitalist" production was suppressed. The Kronstadt rebellion signaled the growing unpopularity of War Communism in the countryside: in March 1921, at the end of the civil war, disillusioned sailors, primarily peasants who initially had been stalwart supporters of the Bolsheviks under the provisional government, revolted against the new regime. At the Tenth Party Congress, it was decided to end War Communism and institute the New Economic Policy, in which the state allowed a limited market to exist. Small private businesses were allowed and restrictions on political activity were somewhat eased. Under the NEP, such state industries would be largely free to make their own economic decisions.In the cities and between the cities and the countryside, the NEP