On the Substitution of a Tax in Kind for the Surplus-Grain Appropriation System

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"On the Substitution of a Tax in Kind for the Surplus-Grain Appropriation System" was a key 1921 Bolshevik policy document that introduced the New Economic Policy by replacing War Communism’s grain requisitioning with a tax in kind on peasants.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Bolshevik document
Soviet economic policy text
policy document
aimedAtSector peasant agriculture
associatedWithLeader Vladimir Lenin
author Vladimir Lenin
countryOfOrigin Russian SFSR
surface form: Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
date 1921
documentType economic policy directive
government policy proposal
economicOrientation partial reintroduction of market mechanisms
economicPolicyType transitional policy from War Communism to NEP
economicSystemAddressed War Communism
field Soviet political history
economic history of the Soviet Union
followedBy broader implementation of the New Economic Policy
geographicFocus Soviet Union
surface form: Soviet Russia
governmentBodyInvolved Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
surface form: Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Central Committee
historicalPeriod early Soviet period
ideologicalContext Bolshevism
Leninism
implementedBy Soviet government
introducedMeasure tax in kind on peasants
language Russian
policyEffect legalized limited peasant market activity after tax payment
reduced compulsory grain requisitions
policyGoal improve relations between Soviet state and peasantry
replace surplus-grain appropriation with a tax in kind
stimulate agricultural production
policyIntroduced New Economic Policy
politicalAffiliationOfAuthor Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)
surface form: Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
politicalContext Bolshevik rule after the Russian Civil War
politicalSystem one-party socialist state
precededBy War Communism food requisition policies
relatedConcept New Economic Policy
grain requisitioning
surplus-grain appropriation system
tax in kind
relatedEvent introduction of the New Economic Policy in 1921
replacedPolicy War Communism grain requisitioning
subjectMatter Soviet food supply policy
agricultural taxation
state-peasant relations
targetPopulation Russian peasantry
timeContext post–Russian Civil War economic crisis
year 1921

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Tenth Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) passedResolution On the Substitution of a Tax in Kind for the Surplus-Grain Appropriation System