Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The New Economic Policy
- Introduction of NEP
- Economic situation
- Industry
production fraction
of pre-war.
- Peasant uprisings.
- War communism and
grain requisitioning.
- Tambov Uprising.
- So serious red
army sent to
restore law and
order.
- First signs of
major famine
appearing.
- Growing
opposition
- Mensheviks
increasing
support in
local soviets.
- Workers opposition movement - disapproval of
gov. control of trade unions.
- Kronstadt
Reb.
march
1921
- One of Lenins most
loyal supporters.
- Unhappy with conscription = relax
economic control and freedom of speech.
- Red army attacked naval base.
- Tenth party
congress 1921
- Announced end of
war communism.
- Replaced by NEP.
- Peasants only give part of
produce to gov, sell rest
and pay tax.
- Private trading allowed
- increase availability of
goods.
- Gov still
controlled 'heights
of economy' -
banks, transport
foreign trade and
heavy industry.
- New currency 1922 -
end inflation.
- 'Democratic centralism' -
ban on internal factions
- NEP betrayal of
communist ideas - Lenin
aware it could split
party.
- Ban factions within
communist party.
- Decisions made by Lenin and the
Politburo would be binding on all other
communists - all other political parties
banned.
- Intro. of NEP -
loosening of
economic control but
tightening of political
control.
- 1921 - governed by
dictatorship more absolute
than any gov. under Tsarist
autocracy.
- Impact of NEP on economy
- Immediate
effect.
- Markets returned,
more goods
available, food
shortages
disappeared and
famine of 1921
ended.
- By 1923, 85% of firms in private
hands, peasants began
cultivating more land and
livestock increased. Coal and
textile production doubled.
- Scissor crisis -
widening gap between
agricultural prices and
industrial prices.
- Agricultural production
rose = price of goods
fell.
- Industrial prices rose
due to shortages.
- Peasants had to pay more at a
time when they were getting less
for their goods.
- Communists accused NEP of
encouraging greed,
independance and self-interest.
- For this group, the shorter
the NEP lasted, the better.
- By Lenin's death in 1924 - debate over
future on NEP was a serious issue for
communists.