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How Successful was the NEP?
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Agnieszka Lovell How Successful was the NEP? The New Economic Policy was introduced in Russia in March 1921 after the Bolsheviks party 10th Party Congress. It was implemented primarily because massive peasant revolts all over Russia threatened Bolshevik power. The peasants were revolting against the former policy of War Communism. In the Tambov region for example, it took one year to put down the revolt, or in the Volga or the Ukraine. The NEP was introduced as the new policy of the Bolshevik party. War Communism had failed and something new had to replace it. However the NEP did not only replace it, but it was radically different than its predecessor in its aims and outcome. The main difference was that it was capitalist, while War Communism was socialist. War Communism had caused many problems in Russia. Grain requisitioning had led to less production and widespread famine, and nationalisation...
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