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Did Lenin impose economic communism?

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No. Lenin imposed a political system which then imposed socialism.

What Lenin did impose on Russia after the October Revolution and at the start of the Russian Civil War was a system known as "war communism." This was not true communism but a forced appropriation of agricultural produce to support the war effort.

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