After the economic policy of `` War Communism '' during the Russian Civil War , as a prelude to fully developing socialism in the country , the Soviet government permitted some private enterprise to coexist alongside nationalized industry in the 1920s and total food requisition in the countryside was replaced by a food tax ( see New Economic Policy ) .
After the economic policy of War Communism during the Civil War , the Soviet government permitted some private enterprise to coexist with nationalized industry in the 1920s and total food requisition in the countryside was replaced by a food tax ( see New Economic Policy ) .