People's_Commissariat_for_Food

Narkomprod

Narkomprod

Narkomprod or the People's Commissariat for Food Supplies, (translit. Narodny Commissariat Prodovolstviya, Russian: Наркомпрод, Народный комиссариат продовольствия) was the Commissariat of the Russian SFSR (Narkomprod of the RSFSR [ru]) and later of the Soviet Union (Narkomprod of the USSR [ru]) in charge of food supplies and consumer industrial goods.[1]

The Narkomprod was responsible in June 1918 for the attempted organisation of 'committees of the poor' in provincial villages. This was an attempt to encourage a 'class war' in the countryside but it did not materialise, mainly because the peasants were not resentful of 'kulaks' (rich peasants) as there was a tendency for all peasants to have the same interests (for example, their own land ownership).

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References

  1. [1]
    Patenaude, Bertrand M. (1995). "Peasants into Russians: The Utopian Essence of War Communism". The Russian Review. 54 (4): 552–570. doi:10.2307/131609. ISSN 0036-0341 – via JSTOR.


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