War communism
- summer 1918 war communism implemented
- industry was nationalized
- compulsory labour introduced
- private trade suppressed
- peasant were forced to give entire produce except bare essentials
Summary
The lack of success in war communism would be some of the first signs of the ways in which communism would play out differently in practice than in theory.
What if the failures in war communism had allowed Lenin to see the faults in his ideology?