<P> During the Civil War ( 1917 -- 21 ) , the Bolsheviks adopted War communism , which entailed the breakup of the landed estates and the forcible seizure of agricultural surpluses . In the cities there were intense food shortages and a breakdown in the money system ( at the time many Bolsheviks argued that ending money 's role as a transmitter of `` value '' was a sign of the rapidly approaching communist epoch ) . Many city dwellers fled to the countryside - often to tend the land that the Bolshevik breakup of the landed estates had transferred to the peasants . Even small scale `` capitalist '' production was suppressed . </P>
<P> During the Civil War ( 1917 -- 21 ) , the Bolsheviks adopted War communism , which entailed the breakup of the landed estates and the forcible seizure of agricultural surpluses . In the cities there were intense food shortages and a breakdown in the money system ( at the time many Bolsheviks argued that ending money 's role as a transmitter of `` value '' was a sign of the rapidly approaching communist epoch ) . Many city dwellers fled to the countryside - often to tend the land that the Bolshevik breakup of the landed estates had transferred to the peasants . Even small scale `` capitalist '' production was suppressed . </P>
following the russian revolution the soviet union adopted a system that
following the russian revolution the soviet union adopted a system that
communism
communism