NEP Flashcards
What policy did the NEP replace?
War Communism
Why was the NEP introduced?
The NEP was introduced to deal with the grim economic situation and famine. State terror had failed to force the peasants to grow large grain stocks.
What were the essential features of the NEP?
Central economic control was to be relaxed
The requisitioning of grain was abandoned and replaced with a tax
The peasants allowed to keep their food surpluses and sell them for a profit
Public markets were restored
Money to be reintroduced as a means of trading
State control of heavy industry
Who opposed the NEP and why?
Trotsky and Preobrazhensky - they wanted war Communism to continue to anger the peasants into starting the next stage of the Revolution.
What did Lenin pass to end party factionalism over the NEP? When did he pass it?
The One Party Unity at the Tenth Party Congress in 1921
What did the NEP see a rise in?
The rise of Nepmen who began to create wealth akin to the middle class of the previous years
How much had grain harvests increased by under the NEP? 1921? 22? 23? 24?
1921 - 37.6 million tonnes
1922 - 50.3 million tonnes
1923 - 56.6 million tonnes
1924 - 51.4 million tonnes
What did the NEP not see a rise to levels seen in Tsar time period?
Coal and Steel
What was the Scissors Crisis?
Industrial prices began to sky rocket due to a lack of resources whilst agricultural prices began to drop due to a surplus of resources
