nep

Question 1

NEP: 1921
what were reintroduced?
what could you do freely?
why was it popular with peasants?
what happened to small factories?

Answer 1

• free trade
• small businesses
• buy and sell freely
• grain requisitioning replaced by tax in kind and could sell surplus to markets
• denationalised, allowed to trade freely and returned to their former owners

Question 2

By ____ what increased by __%
By -same year-factory output increased by ___%
By -same year- who handled ?/? of the retail trade
at beginning of nep there were over ______ traders in moscow

Answer 2

1923- cereal production increased by 23%
1923- factory output increased by 200%
nepmen handled 3/4 of retail trade
25,000

Question 3

by -same year- what crisis occurred? and how?

why was this a problem?

Answer 3

scissors crisis
so much food flooding into the cities the prices of food started to drop, while the prices of industrial goods rose as it was in short supply.
made peasants reluctant so produce grain
tax in kind replaced a grain tax with cash