Key Polices of War Communism
¥Nationalization of all businesses with 5 or more employees
¥Elimination of markets in agriculture and retail trade
¥Agriculture remained in private ownership & control
¥Massive spontaneous peasant land seizures and land redistribution in 1917
¥Industrial labor conscripted
¥Labor receives payments-in-kind from state stores
¥Requisitioned agriculture produce
¥Demonetized economic environment
¥Tax-in-kind of peasants
¥Practically all food stuffs rationed