After the Russian revolution (Summer of 1918) Lenin introduced the term War Communism. This meant that industry was nationalized, labour was compulsory, private trade was suppressed, and peasants were forced to give up their entire produce. All they had left was there bare essentials. Lenin had a lot of trouble introducing this system because it was tough on the people for one. A lot of people found it hard to find any sort of motivation to do their job properly since the man next to them, regardless of what they did, would get paid the exact same at the end of the day. Plus the Russian economy was going downhill. Since he Nationalised businesses there was no competition and in turn no need to raise the price on any goods. After Lenin died there was a massive power struggle between Stalin and Trotsky. Stalin wanted to wanted to strengthen Russia's armed forces to be more a world power, but Trotsky wanted to focus more on the russian people and improve their lives at home. Eventually after three years of struggle Stalin won and Trotsky was sentenced to exile. I think Stalin delayed Russia's development by the way he ruled the country. He cut Russia of from the rest of the world and depressed his people.
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