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was produced as a signed protest sent to the Central Committee of the RCP. To combat the crisis, the government reduced costs of industrial production by cutting staff, rationalizing production, controlling wages and benefits and reducing the influence of traders and middlemen
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Like the blades of a pair of open scissors, the prices of industrial and agricultural goods diverged, reaching a peak in October 1923 where industrial prices were 276 percent of their 1913 levels, while agricultural prices were only 89 percent. The name was coined by
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after the scissors-shaped price/time graph. This meant that peasants' incomes fell, and it became difficult for them to buy manufactured goods. As a result, peasants began to stop selling their produce and revert to
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rose by 47% whereas that of a pair of boots rose by 334%. The crisis happened because agricultural production had rebounded quickly from the
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By August 1923 a wave of strikes spread across Russian industrial centres, sparked off by the crisis. Within the Communist Party,
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The Scissors: retail and wholesale prices of agricultural and industrial goods in the Soviet Union July 1922 to November 1923
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performed an analysis and actively participated in the planning for the state intervention that followed.
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As a result of these actions, the imbalance started to decrease. By April 1924, the agricultural
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prices. The term is now used to describe this economic circumstance in many periods of history.
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had reached 92 (compared to its 1913 level) and the industrial index had fallen to 131.
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A similar crisis had occurred in 1916, when for example the price of
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