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  1. Explaining Lenin's Policy of War Communism and the New Economic Policy

    The New Economic Policy (NEP) was introduced by Lenin in 1921, after the Russian Civil War had ended. It was a significant departure from the War Communism policy that had been implemented during the war. The primary objective of the NEP was to revive the economy, which had been severely damaged during the war.

  2. Economic Policies of the Soviet Union: War Communism and the NEP

    A key feature of this article is the discussion of both "War Communism" and the "New Economic Policy (NEP)" of the early 1920s that dominated Soviet economic policy in its inchoate stages. An overview of the Soviet economy during the 1920s is important to understand as it helps explain the basis for conflict between the state, its workers, and ...

  3. The New Economic Policy (NEP)

    The New Economic Policy, or NEP, was a revised economic strategy, developed and introduced by Lenin in early 1921 - a time when the Bolsheviks faced rising opposition and rebellion. 2. The NEP replaced war communism as the Soviet regime's official economic policy. It ended grain requisitioning, replacing it with a fixed tax to be paid in ...

  4. New Economic Policy (NEP)

    New Economic Policy (NEP), the economic policy of the government of the Soviet Union from 1921 to 1928, representing a temporary retreat from its previous policy of extreme centralization and doctrinaire socialism. (Read Leon Trotsky's 1926 Britannica essay on Lenin.) The policy of War Communism, in effect since 1918, had by 1921 brought the national economy to the point of total breakdown.

  5. Lenin's New Economic Policy: What it was and how it Changed the Soviet

    His response to the poor economy he adopted and how he planned to improve it was called the New Economic Policy, or the N.E.P., which got its name from the fact that it was "new," in comparison to the "old" Czarist economic "policy.". The N.E.P. was masterfully designed to bring capital into the state, which it did, and to help it ...

  6. PDF Trotsky, War Communism, and the Origin of the NEP

    " War Communism." Lenin introduced the term after the fact, as a scornful and apologetic dismissal of the high hopes and unrealistic expectations the Bolsheviks had entertained until the need for relaxa-* This is the sixth in our series of graduate student essays (Ed). Studies in Comparative Communism Vol. X, Nos. 1 & 2, Spring/ Summer 1977 , 44-68

  7. Bukharin'S 'Illusion': War Communism and The Meaning of Nep

    Bukharin's answer - and thus the official answer of the Comintern - was. that NEP was a universal and inevitable phase while war communism was a conditional and avoidable phase. This answer fits in with the standard image. of Bukharin as someone who rejected war communism as an illusion and.

  8. New Economic Policy

    The New Economic Policy (NEP) (Russian: Новая экономическая политика (НЭП), tr. Novaja ekonomičeskaja politika) was an economic policy of the Soviet Union proposed by Vladimir Lenin in 1921 as a temporary expedient. Lenin characterized the NEP in 1922 as an economic system that would include "a free market and capitalism, both subject to state control", while ...

  9. The Transition from War Communism to the New Economic Policy: An

    An early version of this essay was presented at the 1990 Western Slavic Association meeting in ... War Communism.3 Though such acknowledgments do suggest that Stalin had been ... "It is this same NEP and the private capital associated with it that nourish 21. v Stalin, Sochineniia, 13 vols. (Moscow, 1946-53), 4:74, 79-80, 131, 224, 295-302 ...

  10. Lenin and the New Economic Policy

    The New Economic Policy (NEP), introduced by the Tenth Party Congress in 1921, marked a specific era in the development of the Soviet Bolshevik regime, an interregnum between war communism and the creation of the Stalinist administrative command economy . Amongst political observers and historians, the NEP has generated considerable debate.

  11. War Communism: Lenin's Plan to Bolster the Red Army

    Vladimir Lenin during the Russian Revolution of October 1917. He would later become the architect of war communism. From 1918 to 1921, Russia was embroiled in a Civil War, fought between the Bolsheviks' Red Army and their various enemies, known collectively as the White Army. To sustain the Bolshevik war effort, Vladimir Lenin introduced the ...

  12. The Political Economy of NEP: Market Relations and ...

    It should be remembered, however, that in 1923 Trotsky argued against the continuation of NEP and forcefully for increased economic planning to rationalize the Russian economy. Google Scholar The problem with the imperialist war-planning model, according to Lenin, was that it was serving the interests of the capitalist-imperialist.

  13. War Communism and the New Economic Policy

    This "New Economic Policy" (NEP) acted as a significant shift in direction, perhaps best indicated by the chart below. ... The biggest change between the old War Communism, and the New Economic Policy was the introduction of a tax-in-kind. According to a document put forth by the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, the tax-in-kind was ...

  14. Notes on War Communism, the NEP and Contradictions of Development

    In order to begin growing the economy, and to prevent revolt among the peasantry, the measures of War Communism were ended in 1920. However, we should note the beginning conditions of the NEP in summary. There was a severe shortage of goods, infrastructure was widely destroyed and the population had shrunk due to the death caused by the war.

  15. History Grade 11

    The NEP replaced war communism as the official economic policy and war communism almost brought the Soviet economy near collapse. The NEP ended gran confiscation and replaced it with a fixed tax and people to own small businesses and allowed them to sell surplus goods which meant a return of market (Richman, 1981). Women and the Russian revolution:

  16. War Communism and the NEP

    The NEP, abbreviation for the 'New Economic Policy', was a number of policies deployed by Vladimir Lenin to improve the conditions of post war USSR. The NEP replaced the system of War Communism which was used between 1918 and 1921. The main motive for the War Communism policy was to support and supply the Red Army with food and weapons ...

  17. The New Economic Policy Was the Alternative to Stalinism

    The end of the Civil War in 1921 also marked the end of Soviet democracy; single, Bolshevik-party rule was by then an accomplished fact. The New Economic Policy (NEP), adopted in 1921 to supplant War Communism, restored production but did not reverse the trend toward a Stalinist denouement. On the contrary, it only accelerated the ...

  18. New Economic Policy, 1921-1928

    There were 4 key reasons why the NEP was introduced: The previous economic policy of War Communism had resulted in economic collapse and famine in some areas of the USSR. War Communism had also resulted in massive unrest among the workers and the number of strikes increased. The peasants had risen up in protest against War Communism with one of the most serious revolts in Tambov, requiring ...

  19. Trotsky, War Communism, and the origin of the NEP

    THOMAS REMINGTON Trotsky, War Communism, and the Origin of the NEP In December 1919, Trotsky submitted to the Central Committee of the Party a set of theses suggesting measures for combating the economic crisis. ... Trotsky's papers make it clear that Lenin regarded conversion of armies in the south and east to labor armies as useful precisely ...

  20. Compare the War Communism and the NEP in terms of origins, contents and

    Compare the War Communism and the NEP in terms of origins, contents and results. During the Russian Civil War (1918-1921), with the aims of putting Communist theories into practice by redistributing wealth among the Russian people; and to keep the towns and the Red Army supplied with food and weapons, the Bolsheviks adopted a set of harsh economic measures, commonly known as War Communism ...

  21. History Grade 11

    History Grade 11 - Topic 1 Essay Questions. Explain to what extent Stalin succeeded in transforming Russia into a superpower by 1939. Stalin came to power on the back of Lenin's death in 1925, after which he instituted a range of far-reaching policy changes that would alter the course of Russian society and politics for the rest of the 20th ...

  22. War communism and NEP

    War communism and NEP. AS and A Level History. War communism and NEP. As soon as the Bolsheviks seized power they introduced now economic measures that gave substantial power to the proletariat and peasants in the form of their own affairs. This in a slight manner portrayed their commitment to the Marx theory of communism and an equal ideology.

  23. Lenin's War Communism: An Essay

    War communism was harsh and triggered a famine in which 5 million died because Lenin ordered the Cheka to seize grain from the farmers to give to the soldiers and the workers in the cities. This shows how the workers' rights were violated so Lenin could uphold his aim of winning the war. Initially, we see that the amount of state control was ...