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Article Evaluation: War Communism

For my evaluation I chose the ‘War Communism’ article. Everything in the article relates to the topic at hand. However, the section ‘Aims’ could be organized better. As of now its information is slightly jumbled and not as easy to comprehend as the rest of the article. Non of the information is out of date, yet there are a few things that could be added into the article. Later in the article it talks about the military, social, and economic results of war communism. It talks about they effects, yet does not explain why it had these effects. For instance the article mentions that war communism was successful in aiding the Red Army, but does not mention how it was actually useful. What I feel could be improved about the content is more examples of how War Communism actually worked and what it really did. The tone of the article is very neutral, making it easy to read and just absorb the information. The author does use other peoples point of view on the topic, but they are appropriately used and add good insight to the topic. The Bolsheviks have a lot of representation in this article. Not too much, but other groups such as working class or peasants do need more representation into how War Communism affected them. As for the citations, the links are in working order and the content matches that of the article. The information comes from good sources, a collection of books written specifically or loosely about the topic. From the book links I was able to use they appear to be un-bias in their information. When I went into the talk page I found a few good conversations. One of the comments mentioned a need to have more specifics about the effect of war communism on the peasants. Some other comments were about grammatical or layout issues. Lastly a couple of the comments were debating some of the more detailed point of war communism, yet did not back them up with any sources. This article was considered a start class and is part of the socialism, soviet union, military history, and Russia/ economy/ history /military WikiProjects. Even though the article does not go into too much depth or detail it does go into more than we have done in class. As far as economic orders go we talked much more about the NEP.