Prodrazvyorstka
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thumb|350px|"Grain requisitioning" by Ivan Vladimirov ', also transliterated ( , short for , ), alternatively referred to in English as grain requisitioning', was a policy and campaign of confiscation of grain and other agricultural products from peasants at nominal fixed prices according to specified quotas (the noun , , and the verb , refer to the partition of the requested total amount as obligations from the suppliers).
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- World War I grain razverstka
- Soviet prodrazverstka
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thumb|350px|"Grain requisitioning" by Ivan Vladimirov ', also transliterated ( , short for , ), alternatively referred to in English as grain requisitioning', was a policy and campaign of confiscation of grain and other agricultural products from peasants at nominal fixed prices according to specified quotas (the noun , , and the verb , refer to the partition of the requested total amount as obligations from the suppliers).
The term is commonly associated with war communism during the Russian Civil War when it was introduced by the Bolshevik government. However, the Bolsheviks borrowed the idea from the grain razverstka introduced in the Russian Empire in 1916 during World War I.