Apprendisti Storici

During the civil war, Lenin approved an economics way called "War Communism" which provoked a collapse of agricultural and industrial production.

In 1921 a military revolt in Kronstadt and a peasant insurrection were suppressed with incredible violence.

Lenin understood that it was necessary to improve the material conditions of the population and in March of 1921, he launched the New Economic Policy (NEP) - until 1928.

The most important industrial and agricultural production remained in the hands of the State but the NEP left the small businesses to privates. NeP legalized the free trade and bank credit (under the State control).

The NEP lifted the Russian economy.

In December 1922 USSR (Union of Soviets Socialists Republics) was born adopting federalism.

In 1924 the Constitution turned the soviets in basic institutions, from the local level up to the Congress of the Soviets.

At the death of Lenin, a big struggle start at the party between Trotsky and Stalin.