History GCSE
Grain requisitioning
What Grain requisitioning means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Grain requisitioning
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
The forced seizure of grain from the peasantry by armed detachments, which peasants resented as violent.
Topics that use Grain requisitioning
- Option 30: Key topic 2: The Bolsheviks in power, 1917–24 - 4 Economic and social change, 1918–24 (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
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