Possible Clues:

• Communist keeping war prize
• Ill warder gets compensation
• Prize in conflict secured by Communist
• Incentive for finding a lost pet
• Payment for, eg, information
• Recognition of achievement
• Sum offered for information, leading to the retrieval of something lost, perhaps
• Deserts from armed conflict inspired by Trotskyite?
• Desert conflict contained by anarchist
• It's given for good behaviour, perhaps