Limitations of NEP Flashcards
production in industry
the amount of iron, steel, and copper produced never exceeded the amount for the last few years of the tsardom
state owned industries
we’re not successful, heavily subsided by the state and we’re very inefficient
agriculture
this caused a problem by 1923
what congress was in 1923?
12th party
what did the critics of the nep form?
a rival “platform of 46”
limited agricultural
limited mechanisation and modernisation in agriculture
later 1920s
reluctance of peasants to sell food for lower prices
what did the nep not allow?
not allowing the economy to “take off”
what was there a scare of in the 1920s?
war scare
what did the nep do?
it helped stabilise russia
1922-1923
there had been an improvement in weather conditions and hence the harvest
war communism
big improvement on war communism but this was also due to the civil war
a limitation of the nep
scissors crisis
what was progress like?
progress was uneven
what was industry like?
labour-intensive and inefficient