The NEP Flashcards
By 1921, industrial output was at …
13% of 1913 levels
By 1921, population had decreased from…
2.6 million in 1917, to 1.2 million in 1920
By 1921, agricultural production was at…
37% of normal levels
Wage in … bought … of what wage was in …
Wage in 1920 bought 1/50 of what wage was in 1914
City population decreased at people fled to real areas for food and by …
1920, Petrograd’s population decreased by 70%, Moscow’s population by -50%
Lenin on New Economic Policy:
“Let us retreat and construct everything in a new and solid manner”
New Economic Policy:
March 1921-1928
Lenin on peasants:
“We must try to satisfy the demands of the peasants… with the revival of a petty bourgeoisie and capitalism”
Trotsky on the NEP:
“The first sign of the degeneration of Bolshevism”
Bolsheviks saw the NEP as:
“The New Exploitation of the Proletariat”
By …, production output in most industries had increased to pre-war levels
1926 to 1927
NEPmen had … of private trades under the NEP
75%
McCauley on NEP:
“If War Communism was a leap into socialism, the NEP was leap out”
Figes on the NEP:
“Having defeated the Whites, the Bolsheviks surrendered to the peasantry”
Iron ore industry brought in only … of what if mined before WW1
Half
