economic historians as Military Communism.

Establishment

With the civil war drawing to a successful finish, in March 1920 the Council of Workers' and Peasants' Defense was reformed into the Sovet truda i oborony (STO), the Council of Labor and Defense. The organization was formally recognized as being of higher priority than its bureaucratic rival Vesenkha in obtaining allocations of scarce resources. Rather than limiting

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