“Privilege” Factor in Economic Policy of Bolsheviks and Kronstadt Rebellion
https://doi.org/10.24224/2227-1295-2021-10-343-358
Abstract
The influence of the Kronstadt mutiny (March 1921) on the change in the economic course of the Bolsheviks is analyzed. The results of a comparative analysis of different conceptual approaches to its interpretation as a factor of influence are presented. The authors consider the food dictatorship to be the fundamental principle of war communism, periodically softened by campaigns to endow workers with “privileges” in the form of the right to transport food; contemporaries talked about “benefits”. An overview of events, which allows us to consider “privileges” as the main factor in the activation of illegal market relations in 1918—1921is provided in the article. Its novelty lies in the attribution of the Kronstadt mutiny as an essential reason for the transition of the Leninist leadership not to the NEP, but to the next “privileged” operation. At the same time, the authors of the article argue that the accumulation of concessions (“privileges”), accelerated by the rebellion, led in August 1921 to the legalization of freedom of trade and to the NEP. Great attention is paid to the issue of the social basis of the mutiny, since, among other things, the authors see the sources of fearlessness and despair of the insurgents in this circumstance. A. Davydov and V. Khutsieva prove that the rebels primarily acted on behalf of that part of the peasantry that managed to save their bread from the Bolshevik requisitions.
About the Authors
A. Yu. Davydov
The Herzen State Pedagogical University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Alexander Yu. Davydov – Doctor of History, professor, Department of Russian History (XIX—XXI centuries)
ResearcherID Y-4039-2018
St. Petersburg
V. V. Khutsieva
The Herzen State Pedagogical University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Victoria V. Khutsieva – PhD in History, Associate Professor, Department of Russian History (XIX—XXI centuries)
St. Petersburg
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Davydov A.Yu., Khutsieva V.V. “Privilege” Factor in Economic Policy of Bolsheviks and Kronstadt Rebellion. Nauchnyi dialog. 2021;(10):343-358. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.24224/2227-1295-2021-10-343-358
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