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Both Lenin and Stalin adopted well-structured economic policies in order to build their country into a well-established and powerful state" Both Lenin and Stalin had enormous power to change Russia as the leaders of the 'Dictatorship of the Pro ....

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... state even before the institution of War Communism. In economic terms War Communism was an abysmal failure. The state was forced to pay wages in kind to workers because money was simply worthless. With the ban on private trade there was a break down of the currency system and rural communities reverted back to a barter economy. The Bolshevik party forcibly seized all surplus grain from the peasants causing resistance from peasants by hiding grain and not producing more than was needed for themselves - Russia had gone back to subsistence farming. This lead to a drop in production with some historians claiming that by 1921 there was mo ...