Soviet Union
1920-1929
by Karter Bailey
Economic
Lenin created the New Economic Policy in 1921. This plan would help peasants not starve. Part of this plan was to give the peasants small portions of land to grow crops on. When these crops were ready Lenin would let them sell them for a small profit.
Social
In the early 1920s lots of people died from typhus fever and starvation. Millions of children were homeless, living in the streets.
Political
Lenin, who founded the Communist Party, died in 1924, and Joseph Stalin took over his place. Stalin ruled with an iron hand and slowly took the lands away from the peasants.