He became a virtual dictator which saw his government making peace with Germany, distributed land and nationalized industry.in 1918 there was a devastating civil war against the anti-Bolshevik white forces.in 1920 the anti-Bolsheviks were defeated which saw the formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in 1922 (A&E Television Networks, LLC, 2014).
war communism
During the Civil war between 1917 and 1921 the Bolsheviks adopted the war communism that led to the breaking up of landed estates as well as forcible seizure of agricultural surpluses.in the cities there were intense food shortages as well as a break down of monetary system. City dwellers fled to the countryside to tend to the land which Bolshevik break up of the lands estates had transferred of peasants. Early 1921 there was a lot of public discontent with the state of economy resulting to numerous strikes and protests. The Kronstadt rebellion was a sign that there was a growing unpopularity of war communism. However the tenth party congress decided to end war communism and put in place the New Economic Policy whereby the state allowed a limited market to exist the Soviet NEP 1921-1929 was a period of market socialism that saw agricultural yields recovering to the levels they were before the Bolshevik Revolution
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Refrences
A&E Television Networks, LLC.(2014). Russian Revolution.Retrieved May 9,2014 from http://www.history.com/topics/russian-revolution
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