New Economic Policy

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Soviet economic policy economic policy historical event

The New Economic Policy was a 1920s Soviet economic strategy that temporarily reintroduced limited market mechanisms and private trade to revive the post–civil war economy before the shift to full central planning.

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Observed surface forms (3)

Surface form	Occurrences
NEP	1
New Economic Policy era	1
Novaya ekonomicheskaya politika	1

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Soviet economic policy ⓘ economic policy ⓘ historical event ⓘ
aimedTo	increase agricultural production ⓘ reduce peasant unrest ⓘ revive the Soviet economy after the Russian Civil War ⓘ stabilize urban food supply ⓘ
allowed	leasing of small enterprises to private operators ⓘ limited foreign concessions ⓘ private trade in agricultural products ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	New Economic Policy ⓘ surface form: NEP New Economic Policy ⓘ surface form: Novaya ekonomicheskaya politika
appliesToJurisdiction	Russian SFSR ⓘ surface form: Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
approvedBy	Tenth Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) ⓘ
country	Soviet Union ⓘ
economicSystemType	mixed economy ⓘ state capitalism ⓘ
endedBy	Joseph Stalin ⓘ
endTime	1928 ⓘ
followedBy	Five-Year Plans for the National Economy of the Soviet Union ⓘ surface form: First Five-Year Plan policy of collectivization in the Soviet Union ⓘ
follows	War Communism ⓘ
hasEffect	emergence of NEPmen as private traders ⓘ partial revival of private commerce ⓘ rapid recovery of agricultural output in the early 1920s ⓘ
hasPart	legalization of small-scale private trade ⓘ limited private ownership of small enterprises ⓘ state control of banking ⓘ state control of foreign trade ⓘ state control of heavy industry ⓘ tax in kind ⓘ
historicalPeriod	1920s ⓘ
implementedBy	Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) ⓘ surface form: Bolshevik Party Soviet government ⓘ
inception	March 1921 ⓘ
influencedBy	Kronstadt rebellion ⓘ Russian Civil War ⓘ peasant uprisings such as the Tambov Rebellion ⓘ
introducedBy	Vladimir Lenin ⓘ
location	Soviet Union ⓘ
partOf	economic history of the Soviet Union ⓘ history of the Russian Revolution ⓘ
policyArea	agricultural policy ⓘ industrial policy ⓘ macroeconomic policy ⓘ trade policy ⓘ
replaced	grain requisitioning with a tax in kind ⓘ
restricted	private ownership in banking ⓘ private ownership in foreign trade ⓘ private ownership in heavy industry ⓘ
startTime	1921 ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

New Economic Policy → alsoKnownAs → New Economic Policy ⓘ

this entity surface form: NEP

New Economic Policy → alsoKnownAs → New Economic Policy ⓘ

this entity surface form: Novaya ekonomicheskaya politika

Left Opposition → criticized → New Economic Policy ⓘ

Kronstadt rebellion → followedBy → New Economic Policy ⓘ

Tambov Rebellion → followedBy → New Economic Policy ⓘ

War Communism → followedBy → New Economic Policy ⓘ

Vladimir Lenin → implemented → New Economic Policy ⓘ

Five-Year Plans for the National Economy of the Soviet Union → influencedBy → New Economic Policy ⓘ

Stalin era → precededBy → New Economic Policy ⓘ

this entity surface form: New Economic Policy era

War Communism → replacedBy → New Economic Policy ⓘ