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55) The policy of ‘military communism’ in Kazakhstan (1918-1920).

The policy of military communism was a policy of nationalization of all the industries virtually, centralization of administration in the maximum, surplus-appropriation system, provision of the card system, compulsory labor conscription. The policy included: override of market and financial relations, substitution of economic stimulus to non-economic directive, distribution of hard state control in all areas.

The main idea was to set the “dictatorship of proletariat”.

Communist party just accepted the Marxist scientific theory as a sort of religion – believing that the life could be changed through the human’s will.

Military communism was adopted by the Bolsheviks with the aim of keeping towns and the Red Army supplied with weapons and food.

War communism included the following policies:

  1. All industry was nationalized and strict centralized management was introduced.

  2. State monopoly on foreign trade was introduced.

  3. Discipline for workers was strict, and strikers could be shot.

  4. Obligatory labor duty was imposed onto "non-working classes".

  5. Prodrazvyorstka – requisition of agricultural surpluses from peasants in excess of absolute minimum for centralized distribution among the remaining population.

  6. Food and most commodities were rationed and distributed in a centralized way.

  7. Private enterprise became illegal.

  8. Military-like control of railroads was introduced.

The number of starving men in Kazakhstan reached 1,508,000 people by November 1920. 1,750,000 people or 42% of all Kazakh population was the victims of the famine and its painful consequences. 1,010,000 of Kazakhs abandoned the boundaries of their historic motherland.

  1. The NEP in Kazakhstan (1921-1925) and its nature. The results of NEP policy in Kazakhstan.

New Economic Policy was an economic policy proposed by V. Lenin to prevent the Russian economy from collapsing. Allowing some private ventures, while the state continued to control banks, foreign trade, and large industries. It was officially decided in the course of the 10th Congress of the All-Russian Communist Party by decree on March 21, 1921, "On the Replacement of Prodrazvyorstka by Prodnalog". Agricultural production increased greatly. Instead of the government taking all agricultural surpluses with no compensation, the farmers now had the option to sell their surplus yields, and therefore had an incentive to produce more grain.

Though NEP was primarily an agricultural policy, it succeeded in creating an economic recovery after the devastating effects of the First World War, the Russian Revolution and the Russian civil war. By 1928, agricultural and industrial production had been restored to the 1913 (pre-WWI) level. But some people within the party saw the NEP as a betrayal of communist principles, so they wanted a fully planned economy instead.

The main result of NEP: the agriculture and economy was restored and the stable financial system was established.

  1. The process of industrialization in Kazakhstan (1920-1934). The results of industrialization policy in Kazakhstan.

Industrialization – this is the name of the politic that was set up by the Bolsheviks when they came to power after the civil war victory.

Apart from ideological goals, Stalin, who succeeded Lenin after his death, also wished to embark on a program of rapid heavy industrialization which required larger surpluses to be extracted from the agricultural sector in order to feed a growing industrial work force and to pay for imports of machinery. The state also hoped to export grain, a source of foreign currency needed to import technologies necessary for heavy industrialization.

Kazakhstan was one of the main areas of industrialization to transform agrarian country into industrial power, to produce and set up the machinery equipment of all sectors of the economy. Most of factories and plants have actually been built in those days.

Kazakhstan continued industrialization until the Second World War. Industrialization led to the urban growth, the formation of a working class, heavy industry became the predominant field of economy – that was the great achievement for the previous cattle-breeding people, 90 % of whom before the Revolution lived in a countryside; working class was few, as well as national technical cadres; communication and transport facility was poorly developed.

Throughout the 1930s, industrialization was combined with a rapid expansion of education at schools and in higher education. In those days mass struggle illiteracy had begun. According to Lenin’s order of 1919 all citizens of Soviet Union between 16 to 50 had to undertake classes and be literate. It is one of most positive thing one can find in soviet history along with free medicine.

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