The Bolsheviks were the Communist Russians after the overthrow of Tsar Nicholas II. Their revolution eventually led to d. Civil War in Russia against the non-communist rulers. This resulted in the Bolshevik winning and Vladimir Lenin taking over.
The first major domestic crisis of the US government under the Constitution resulted from the federal government exercising its new right to tax the states in order to bring in more revenue to pay down the war debt.
It represented social Darwinism, so it would be the first choice.
The reason that printing currency is a delegated power is because, our Nation needs to be able to trade among itself. If two states had different types of currency from one another it would make trade and travel between the states much more difficult as money from FL and NY would likely be different and likewise useless in each of the other states.
Well, I'm not sure which war you're referencing. But, if it's WWI, they did it through war bonds and taxes. Mostly war bonds.