In this chapter you will read about the NEP, an economic plan which constituted a “step back” in terms of the attainment of communism in the first socialist state. Specifically, consider the following questions:
Why did the Bolsheviks agree to an economic policy that many perceived as a setback on the road to communism?
What were the economic problems at the end of the Civil War?
What were the terms of the New Economic Policy?
Was the New Economic Policy viable for the long term in Russia?
Under what circumstances was the New Economic Policy terminated and what economic policies followed it?
