| The essential feature of war communism was the substitution of compulsion for the workings of the market mechanism. |
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| Mao's goal was to be the most revolutionary and the most Communist, taking Lenin's war communism and Marx's momentary utopian mulling on the Paris Commune as the essence of communism. |
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| The first model of political economy that the revolutionary Bolshevik leaders attempted to establish in the Soviet Union has generally been called war communism. |
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| It is hard to evaluate war communism as an economic system, for on the one hand it enabled the Reds to win the Civil War, and on the other, it did not stop the process of disintegration. |
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| In the economic life of the country, too, the communist regime sought to exert control through a series of drastic measures that came to be known as war communism. |
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| With this he drops the rigid war communism of the years before, because it had appeared to be disastrous for both agriculture and industry. |
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| After the second world war communism put an end to hopes of development. |
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| The alternative, to maintain the policies of war communism in the conditions of social collapse, would have led to massive peasant revolt and counterrevolution. |
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| Forced requisitioning led to peasant revolts, and the Tambov province revolt of 1920 in particular forced Lenin to change his War Communism policy. |
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