Consequences of NEP Flashcards
1
Q
- What were the 7 main consequences of the NEP?
A
- Stability and popularity amongst peasants.
- Re-emergence of state capitalism concept.
- Scissors crisis.
- Growth of Nepmen.
- Industrial growth followed by plateau.
- Corruption & anti-social behaviour.
- Debates within the CP regarding state control of economy.
2
Q
- What did free trade encourage peasants to do?
- What were the results of this? (2) - Grain production from 1913-26:
1913: __ million tonnes.
1921: __ million tonnes.
1926: __ million tonnes. - What had happened to all industry despite pig iron and steel by 1926?
- What did Lenin argue NEP was a form of?
A
- Grow more.
- Increased production which ended the famine. - 1913: 80m
1921: 38m
1926: 77m - Recovered to 1913 levels.
- State Capitalism.
3
Q
- How did Nepmen make money?
- What were they regarded as by the CP?
- Why? - When did they operate until?
- What happened to them on the odd occasion? (3)
- What other form of illegal activity grew during NEP?
- What was this due to?
A
- By spotting gaps in the market.
- Parasites.
- Made money by selling goods, and produced nothing. - End of NEP.
- Arrested by Cheka for profiteering.
- Prostitution.
- Widespread poverty amongst women in the 1920s.
4
Q
- What recovered fast and what recovered slowly during NEP?
- Why did farmers have no incentive to produce?
- What did the govt do to the prices of industrial products?
- However, what did this mean there was less money for?
- What did the scissors crisis indicate to radicals like Trotsky?
A
- Agriculture - fast, industry - slowly.
- Couldn’t buy goods.
- Subsidised them.
- Improving the economy.
- That NEP was not capable of industrialising the economy.