War Communism And New Economic Policy Essays

'[9] The Bolsheviks efforts to win the Civil War were an attempt to consolidate power rather address the needs and treatment of the Russian people through War Communism. '[8] World War one and the Civil War had left Russia’s agriculture devastated and its industry, stagnant.

There was widespread hostility to “War Communism” and there were open revolts against Bolshevik rule, however this policy contributed to a military success in helping the Reds win the Civil War. As rural and urban discontent grew, a general disillusionment with Bolshevik rule was setting in the policy of War Communism had benefited the Bolsheviks by...

This meant that Lenin had to abandon the policy of War Communism and put in place a new economic policy. Also, without War Communism and a lot of people dead because of it, Lenin would not have thought about creating a new economic policy (which caused many people to believe that Lenin betrayed the communist belief) that would benefit his people.

Overall, Lenin was not a dictator as he had no intention of being so, Lenin merely responded to the circumstance that faced him, although these responses may seem unsuitable Lenin did retreat from some of them, such as the move from War Communism to the New Economic Policy after the Civil War. The interpretation that War Communism was dictatorial is...

In fact no other major conflict of interestingly dominated the post World War II the way the cold war did. The demise of the cold war was merely a by-product of the other major events Gorbachev was involved with-the death of communism in the USSR and the crumple of the USSR itself.

War communism was implemented as a result of the civil war. The policies of war communism and the New Economic Policy (NEP) had a great impact on both the peasantry and the proletariat.

The USSR, a Left Wing single party state, did achieve power as the result of a revolutionary process against tradition as Lenin had used his April Theses in order to persuade people into joining his cause and setting up a communist state, and had set up policies that went against Russian tradition, such as War Communism, and policies that went again...

The NEP stated that requisitioning of food and agricultural surpluses, a ideal of War Communism, must be ended. The first eight months of the transition from War Communism to the NEP failed to displace the bourgeois to install the socialist economic order.

The aforementioned developments prompted Washington to assume that a new foe was in its midst – Communism. After World War II, the United States focused on putting an end to Communism.

This might also be one of the reasons countries had many dictators which led to the second world war. The cold war ended with communism being discredited as a viable, social, political and economic system.

In essence, a repeat of World War I would be the worst possible outcome, and that the only way to prevent Europe from falling into another massive tragedy like World War I was to follow the policy of appeasement World War I had been considered the Great War, and the War to End All Wars. The rise of Hitler meant it would both deter the rise of commun...

The United States limited the spread of communism by the U.S. intervention in Korea which became the Korean War. After the defeat of the Axis powers in World War II it was apparent that the victors would come out as the new world powers.

Vietnam War was a perfect example of getting in to do something for a good cause, but then losing the war with a bad military planning. The Vietnam War was like a continuation of the first Indochina war that was battled when the Vietnamese sought for independence from France after the World War II (Daum & Gardner, 2003).

With Australia no longer sending troops into the war it ended the forward defence policy enabled by Robert Menzies, one of the key reasons for Australia’s involvement in the war. The evidence presented, that displayed Australia choosing to go to war is much stronger and outweighs Australia’s dim excuse that we had to aid America’s war efforts agains...

Summarily, Truman’s war against communism was proving impossible due to the rapid expansion of the practice and existence of perpetuating forces like the Soviet Union. The doctrines policy also referred as the Marshall Plan prevented the spread of communism through the provision of foreign renovation aid to war torn nations.

However, comparing their strategies, one finds that Stalin moved away from Lenin’s ideals, War Communism and his New Economic Policies (NEP). This period, where “private trade was banned and food was requisitioned from the peasantry to feed the Red Army and ensure supplies for those in vital industries” (Heinemann Advanced History) was called War Co...

Containment policy within Asia did not have the success it had within Europe either, yet the United States would continue to implement the policy until the end of the Cold War. This was an early example of the United States attempting to contain the spread of communism years before the Cold War was a worldwide phenomenon.

The Cold War: The United States and the Soviet Union, 1917-1991 . It was since the World War II that Latin American Communism had been increasingly evident and continued to important in the region, more than uniformity.

He shared with Truman on American foreign policy and he alleged communism as a huge force struggling for world supremacy and argued that control could not go far enough to stop soviet expansion and therefore a more forceful policy of liberation was needed to free those dominated by communism and his dedication to restrain communism remained which le...

The United States rejoiced as its formidable enemy was brought to its knees, thereby ending the Cold War which had hovered over these two superpowers since the end of World War II. The two countries were allies during the World War II and their relationship after the war would have been firmly, however, since they are diplomatically opposed, they bo...

Thus, the Tsarist regime and the break of the first world war affected the approach that Stalin had to foreign policies before the second world war. After the second world war, Stalin’s dictatorial approach to leadership and communism are the key factors that affected the foreign policies of the USSR.

Containment and the Cold War: Reexaming the Doctrine of Containment as a Grand Strategy Driving US Cold War Interventions. Even though the U.S. and the Soviet Union were allies during World War II, they both emerged from the war as global powers, with differences on their perspectives of the world.

Instituted to combat the global spread of Communism during the Greek Civil War in 1947, it rendered economic and military aid to Turkey and Greece. Although initially used to assist in the Greek Civil War, the Truman Doctrine contributed to the Korean War and is largely responsible for U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

The Truman Doctrine focused on the containment of communism by providing assistance to countries resisting communism in Europe while the Eisenhower Doctrine was focused upon providing both military and economic assistance to nations resisting communism in the Middle East and by increasing the flow of trade from the United States into Latin America. ...

The Reds came through the Civil War and afterwards they commanded more respect than ever before, and due to their convincing victory, and the terror that they had created during it, people were much less likely to think abut rebelling. War communism caused the peasants to manufacture less food for the State, as they had no incentive to make any surp...

In conclusion, even though the Sovietisation of Eastern Europe added to the rising tensions that led to the development of Cold War, it was still the misunderstanding, misperception and the mistrust of both superpowers that led to a spate of events that encouraged further progress into the Cold War. Hence the aggressive nature of the blockade prompt...

“As soon as Congress had authorized the Marshall Plan expenditures for the first year, the Administration, with the cooperation of the Republic leadership in the House and Senate foreign relations committees, began to lay the legislative groundwork for the North Atlantic Treaty (Hammond, 1969: 26).” The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO, was ...

This war took place everywhere it also took place out of space, when they wanted to see who would reach the moon first. Communism and Truman Doctrine also had big role in starting the war.

As the Cold War ended, the relationship between the US and the Soviet Union improved and this aspect led to the signing of new arms control treaties in 1987, which helped in regulating nuclear weapons. The Iraq War: The Military Offensive, from Victory in 21 Days to the Insurgent Aftermath.

When Czechoslovakia, arguably the most pro-Western of all the East European countries in post war Europe as it had formed very close ties with the US, fell behind the Iron Curtain (or fell to communism), Truman realized that Stalin had still been in too much control. The Truman Doctrine was significant to the origins and the development of the cold ...