The policy of taking grain from peasants during the Civil War aimed to solve which problem?

Correct answer: Food supply of cities and army

Direct answer: Option D, food supply for cities and the army. During the Civil War, fighting disrupted farming, transport, markets, and distribution. The Bolshevik government needed grain for soldiers at the front and for workers and residents in towns. The reasoning is: war created shortages; cities and the army still needed food; the government collected grain from peasants, often through coercive requisitioning; this was intended to maintain wartime supply. D is correct. A is wrong because palace decoration had no connection with the emergency grain policy. B is wrong because the immediate stated problem was feeding the population and army, not mainly foreign trade. C is wrong because the policy was not designed to solve a Church-tax issue. The policy could cause resentment and hardship, but its purpose in this question was supply. Memory cue: Civil War grain requisition = feed the army and cities.