Secondly, the Kronstadt Rebellion scared Lenin and the Communist party into believing that Russia needed a new economic system. In March 1921, the Kronstadt sailors mutinied and Trotsky delt with quickly, killing thousands of soldiers. This wouldn’t have been to important, except that The Kronstadt sailors had been good supporters of The Bolsheviks during the Revolutions of 1917. Both reasons convinced Lenin that he needed a new economic policy, and in 1921, he decided to set up the IVEP.
War Communism, although it managed to help the Bolsheviks win the civil war, was not very successful. Peasants hated the fact that they could not sell their surplus of grain and started growing crops only for their needs. This meant thqt by the end of 1920 and in 1921, their was a huge famine, as the Bolsheviks couldn’t handout enough food , as not enough was grown.
The New Economic Policy, however, was a lot more a lot more successful. Agricultural and industrial production were rising, 50,3 million tones of grain were harvested in 1922 and 72,5 in 1925, 9,5 millions of tones of coal were mined in 1922 and 18,1 nearly twice as much , in 1925 .However, the NEP was not a Communist economic system, and many Communist thought it was a betrayal of Communism.
War Communism was highly criticized for causing terrible hardships and for being unfair. As the peasants could no longer get anything out of producing, they produced only for their needs and thus, food lacked and in 1921, their were great famines. On the other hand, the IVGP was criticized for being a return to a capitalist economy. The peasants could sell surplus food to earn money, in factories went back in the hands of private owners. All of these are capitalist ideas and are typical in a capitalist economic system. However Lenin did say NGP was temporary , but in 1924? Shortly after instoring NEP, he died, so no one knows how long he had meqnt IVEP to continue.
