Reasons for the NEP The Krondstadt Rebellion: they had been the Bolsheviks' most feverent supporters and Lenin had to send Trotsky to put down the rebellion. However, he was worried that if they rebelled, the rest of the country might too. Frequent strikes in cities People in bread lines getting quite angry Factional criticism within communist party Frequent peasant revolts Effects of the NEP There was a fixed tax on produce, so peasants could now sell or retain the surplus as they wished. This meant they now had more motivation to produce, and agricultural production increased. Agricultural town markets were allowed to re-open, so people got more money and higher wages Some peasants became quite rich as a result of the new policy, so the class of Kulaks re-emerged. They had previously been demonized in Bolshevik propaganda, and this led to some opposition within the party. Some became ri
Reasons for and effects of War Communism. Reasons Introduced to combat economic problems caused by the Civil War Thought workers would do better working for a cause - not for a system that made some rich and others poor Lenin used the aspect of grain requisition to feed the Red Army so they could have an increased possibility of winning the Civil War Principles, decrees and components of the policy Production was to be run by the state (private ownership of houses and businesses kept to a minimum) State control was to be granted over the labor of every citizen (military would become labor army once its purpose had been served) State should produce everything in its own undertakings (control activities of peasants Extreme centralisation introduced (economic life in Bolshevik areas was given to just a few organisations, which could confiscate and requisition as they wished) State should become the s