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The factors: 1) All factories with more than ten workers were nationalised. Vesenkha decided what each factory should produce. 2) All workers under government control. Millitary discipline in factories included death penalty for strikers. The unemployed joined ‘labour armies’ which had jobs such as cutting down trees. 3) Private trading was banned. Peasants gave surplus food to government. No selling for profit. 4) Government allowed money to lose value through inflation. Rents were abolished. Instead of using money peasants were encouraged to barter. 5) In cities food was strictly rationed.
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