Lenin - Industry 1917-1928

Question 1

When was the NEP introduced?

Answer 1

1921

Question 2

Why was the NEP introduced?

Answer 2

A pragmatic/strategic response to combat revolts again grain requisitioning and the economic climate post civil war

Question 3

What did the NEP intend to achieve?

Answer 3

• economic stability
• restore private commercial activity
• rapid economic recovery

Question 4

How did the NEP offend Bolsheviks?

Answer 4

It was an ideological betrayal

Question 5

When was there a mutiny at Kronstadt naval base?

Answer 5

March 1921 - the Cheka arrested 15,000 of the 30,000 sailors - the leaders were shot

Question 6

Why was the NEP introduced?

Answer 6

A pragmatic/strategic response to combat revolts again grain requisitioning and the economic climate post-civil war

Question 7

What was reopened as a result of the NEP?

Answer 7

Private retail shops

Question 8

When was rationing abolished?

Answer 8

Nov 1921

Question 9

When were peasants allowed to hire labour and rent land?

Answer 9

March 1922

Question 10

What political ideology did the NEP align with?

Answer 10

Capitalist practices

Question 11

What group did the NEP create?

Answer 11

Nepmen - quintessentially traders in scarce goods

Question 12

How was the NEP’s ‘capitalism’ different to that previously in Russia?

Answer 12

Bankers, industrialists, stockbrokers and landlords were a thing of the past - no high bourgeoisie

Question 13

When was the Nomenklatura system introduced and what was it?

Answer 13

1923
It was a composition of a list of 5,500 designated party and government posts - adminsitration