Comments by "Alexander Sylchuk" (@sshko101) on "That Time the Soviets Tried to Abolish Money" video.

It was peasant society and almost every economic exchange predominantly turned into barter or just plain confiscation of any produce by the state. I think that the policy of endless printing of money actualy worked, but rather as a mean to convince people that this authority will pay people "actual" (money which was also a lie). Another benefit of such policy was that foreign countries had fixed exchange rates, which were constantly updated, but most of the time russian rubl was overpriced since it was quite impossible to evaluate actual inflation rate and number of existing rubles inside russia. I don't think that this printing policy was intended to make anything more than just to destroy financial system, which it did. Another thing is that their stupid idea about building economy without money didn't work at all. Most of the population were illiterate, they couldn't understand what were actual Marx's ideas (despite the "killing of the rich") and so on.
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The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was first signed by Ukraine (UPR), and only one month later by the soviets. "The bolsheviks would not reliably take control of Ukraine again until 1920" isn't correct in a sense that bolsheviks never controlled Ukraine at any time in the history before. That's the same as saying something like: "The US would not reliably take control of Canada again...". US tried to capture Canada twice, but failed (that's the only difference), and maybe that Ukraine for the Russian Empire was more of a Scotland for the British Empire. There's a great book on ukrainian financial system during 1917-1922 before the bolsheviks have conquered our country, but it's only avaliable in ukrainian and it's 810 pages long.
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