abstract:War communism or military communism () was the economic and political system that existed in Soviet Russia during the Russian Civil War, from 1918 to 1921. According to Soviet historiography, this policy was adopted by the Bolsheviks with the goal of keeping towns and the Red Army stocked with weapons and with food.
From the start of his time in the White House, Reagan delivered a series of speeches that dismissed the ideological arguments of the New Left from the 1960s and insisted that the U.S. could still claim a superior political and economic system in the war against communism.