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Russia's Last Capitalists: The Nepmen, 1921-1929

Russia's Last Capitalists: The Nepmen, 1921-1929

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EconomicsEastern European HistoryRussian History

ISBN10: 0520071743
ISBN13: 9780520071742
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Sep 18 1990
Pages: 243
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.67 Width: 5.99 Depth: 8.95
Language: English
In 1921 Lenin surprised foreign observers and many in his own Party, by calling for the legalization of private trade and manufacturing. Within a matter of months, this New Economic Policy (NEP) spawned many thousands of private entrepreneurs, dubbed Nepmen. After delineating this political background, Alan Ball turns his attention to the Nepmen themselves, examining where they came from, how they fared in competition with the socialist sector of the economy, their importance in the Soviet economy, and the consequences of their liquidation at the end of the 1920s.

Alan Ball's history of this experiment with capitalism is strikingly relevant to current efforts toward economic reform in the USSR.

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