The life of an ordinary person during the period of war communism.

It was not life. It was survival. The bulk of the population lived in rural areas. It was on her that the surplus appropriation system hit. Bread was withdrawn from people not in proportion to the amount of the harvested crop, but according to the order “from above”. It happened that they took away everything at all and did not leave it for sowing. The seizure of grain was compulsorily carried out by a rabble, which was authorized by the government. There was no point in farming anymore. People were drawn to the cities. Such actions led to hunger and discontent. There was still not enough bread for the cities. The inhabitants of the cities were starving and the enterprises did not work. The riots even spread to military units.