The Transition Away From War Communism

Unhappy workers were now organizing strikes, not on behalf of the bolsheviks, but against them. The soviet government started implementing wider nationalization and central administration of factories. Worker mismanagement was seen by the government as one of the primary causes of the empty factories and destitution they complained about. So after about six months, the brief experiment of worker controled factories gave way to the return of centralized hierarchy with old plant managers offered high salaries for their services. But i want a transition away from the communism part of war communism and back to the war part ofwar communism. In may 19 18, the sovietGovernment found itself besieged on all sides and facing a very real