&
good : bad :
EFFECTS OF THE NEP
)
↳
Y'Nepmen' sold what they had where prices
-
peasants :
↳ agricultural production increased rapidly
↳ peasants with more land were highest&d made procits from shortages of ↳ peasants grew moreCood
made more surplus = more &d
Good manufactured products ↳ peasants paid a certain amount to the
money ↳ inequality government but could use the remaining
growth of which contradicts
↳ peasant revolts gradually the ideals of socialism crops to create a profit
ended 4) supplies of food increased
↳ partly due to the Red
out unrest
4
people were allowed to trade & rationing
Army stamping New Economic Policy (NEP) was abolished
I
↳ peasants were generally
14
happy to tolerate the gov
. ↳ industrial growth increased
FEATURES OF THE NEP
↳ life in cities and towns improved ↳ increased foreign (government) involvement
reversed the economic changes
↳ saved the Bolsheviks from ruin ↳ Some countriesthought that the experiment
imposed by War communism by
...
Of communism in the Su was coming to am end
↳ reintroducing free market So they made trade deals , boosting the SU's
OPPOSITION TO THE NEP ↳ peasants could choose what to Cinances
Lenin initially described the NEP as a sell and for how much
&
peasant Brest-Litovsic' ↳ grain requisitioning ended
↳ deeply unpleasant but would quickly ↳
Some buisnesses could be
achieve good results for the Su
privately owned
However, many Bolsheviks were worried THE SCISSOR CRISIS (1923)
'Nepmen'
about the policy ↳ lots of good was being produced
↳ Russians could open a shop
↳ war communism (although not good) was & sell/mire goods for a procit
↳ cost of food decreased
in line with communism ideals ↳ industrial production was slowly developing
↳ the NEP looked like a return to capitalism ↳ price of manufactured products stayed high
↳ short-term peasants were less eager to sell
Some
↳ got very rich ,
↳ Others Kronstadt Naval Base their crops because they'd get less money and
stayed very poor
&
would have to spend more of their money on
↳ Kronstadt Naval Base
↳ peasants could charge the highest price guarded manufactured goods
possible for their crops petrograd ↳ this worried the gov . because they thought
↳ the most successful peasants were far ↳ Trotsky called them the 'reddest there would not be enough grain to feed
richer than their fellow peasants people in the cities
Of the red'
↳ living conditions for factory workers were ↳ the government took steps to reduce
↳ 28th Feb 1921 :
Kronstadt mutiny industrial prices reducing the problem
not improving ,
↳ new classes of rich and poor in both ↳ spread to the naval base
cities & the countryside were created , 000 sailors mutimied
↳ more than 150
reasons for the mutiny
↳ growing opposition due to the difficulties caused by war communism amongst
workers
↳ Workers strikes
began in Moscow and petrograd caused by
, cood shortages and lack
of creedom
↳ Bolshevik bureacrats had more cood than workers
Kronstadt sailors felt that the Bolsheviks were abandoning their socialist revolution
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