HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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Small business was allowed to trade for a private profit
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Some private ownership of land was allowed
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crop surplus could be sold for a profit
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all of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The biggest change between the old War Communism, and the New Economic Policy was the introduction of a tax-in-kind. According to a document put forth by the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, the tax-in-kind was percentage-based, progressive, and precisely timed.
Detailed explanation-2: -As described by Lenin, the NEP was characterized by an economic system that would include a free market system under state control, while socialized state enterprises would operate on a profit basis.
Detailed explanation-3: -Lenin’s death in 1924 brought the NEP to an end. Stalin criticised it for creating many capitalist groups in Russia and reviving class divisions.
Detailed explanation-4: -New Economic Policy (NEP), the economic policy of the government of the Soviet Union from 1921 to 1928, representing a temporary retreat from its previous policy of extreme centralization and doctrinaire socialism. Vladimir Lenin.
Detailed explanation-5: -Lenin believed that capitalism would lead to Imperialism, which is the entity which they had only just eliminated. The N.E.P. was a way to manipulate capitalism so as to ensure that capital would be a result of labors, but Imperialism would not be able to infiltrate the system and regain power.