Sentence examples for grain requisitions from inspiring English sources
The grain requisitions made on this basis were ruthlessly enforced by activist squads (and, in Bukharin's view, this experience contributed greatly to the brutalization of the party).
While the Kronshtadt mutiny was still in progress, Moscow announced the abolition of the universally hated policy of grain requisitions, replacing it with a tax in kind.
Unusually, a brief paragraph in an account of the Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957 describes widespread demonstrations, strikes and riots in late 1956, as people faced shortages of food and daily necessities, the result of forced state grain requisitions and failed industrial policies.
In March 1921 the government introduced the New Economic Policy, which ended the system of grain requisitioning and permitted the peasant to sell his harvest on an open market.
Despite the peasants' detestation of the Soviet's grain requisitioning, the peasants, when forced to choose between Reds and Whites, chose the Reds.
Collectivization began in 1928, as a return to draconian Russian-civil-war-era grain requisitioning — itself a major cause of the first Soviet famine, which took place between 1921 and 1922.
The state could then manage grain production, requisitioning and distributing it by decree.
Without the government requisitioning grain at levels far beyond the capacity of the Ukrainian peasantry to fulfill, Professor Motyl said, there would have been no famine.
Peasants were initially treated as a reactionary element, as their love of individual ownership was seen as essentially capitalist; in the civil war of 1918-21, grain was forcibly requisitioned to feed the cities.
To help police the Maximum and requisition grain in the countryside, as well as to carry out arrest warrants and guard political prisoners, the Convention authorized local authorities to create paramilitary forces.
An impi consistently covered 50 miles (80 km) a day, living off grain and cattle requisitioned from the kraals it passed and accompanied by boys who carried the warriors' sleeping mats and cooking pots.
