NEP

Question 1

Wages

Answer 1

1913: 30.5 roubles per month
1920-1: 10.1 roubles per month
1925-6: 28.6 roubles per month

Question 2

Unemployment

Answer 2

1922: 160,000
1929: 1,741,000

Question 3

Grain harvest

Answer 3

1913: 80
1922: 50.3
1925: 72.5
all figures in millions of tons

Question 4

Farming methods

Answer 4

relied on traditional methods
20% still farmed with wooden plough
50% of the harvest was cut by hand

Question 5

Workers attitudes

Answer 5

complained bitterly about the gap between themselves and the better off
complained abiut high prices
housing problems, overcrowded homes

Question 6

Industrial Production

Answer 6

1913: 10251 millions of roubles
1920: 1410
1926: 11083 millions of roubles

Question 7

Ban on Factionalism

Answer 7

1921
punished by expulsion from party
used by Lenin to ensure NEP could be put into place

Question 8

Scissors Crisis

Answer 8

Agricultural Harvest in 1923 was 89% of that in 1913.
Industrual prices in 1923 was 290% of that in 1913.
Peasants unable to purchase industrial goods due to high prices so they didn’t sell their goods.
Government reintroduced requisitioning, reduced industrial costs and crisis solved in April 1924
But shortage of industrial goods and withdrawal of peasants from market was a problem throughout

Question 9

Resistance and Unrest

Answer 9

NEP reduced tensions with government
118 revolts from 1918 to 1924 which decreased due to NEP