NEP

Question 1

When was the NEP introduced?

Answer 1

1921

Question 2

What did the NEP allow for?

Answer 2

Private enterprises.
Ending of grain requisitioning (razvyorstka).
Food tax.
Smychka
Kept heavy industry and railways in the hands of the government

Question 3

What is smychka?

Answer 3

An alliance between peasants and workers in order to make them dependent on each other

Question 4

What is prodnalog?

Answer 4

A food tax that replaced grain requisitioning

Question 5

How much did the harvests of 1920-21 produce?

Answer 5

Less than 50% of that in 1913.

Question 6

By 1923 Nepmen handled how much retail trade?

Answer 6

3/4

Question 7

What are Nepmen?

Answer 7

Private traders

Question 8

By 1923 how much did cereal production increase by compared to 1920?

Answer 8

23%

Question 9

From 1920-23 factory output was ?

Answer 9

A 200% increase

Question 10

One party unity banned what?

Answer 10

Factionalism (forming groups within parties)

Question 11

What happened to peasants in the first 2 years of the NEP?

Answer 11

Unemployment rose. Wages were low.

Question 12

When did Russia make trade agreements with Germany?

Answer 12

1922

Question 13

When did Russia make trade agreements with Britain?

Answer 13

1924

Question 14

Why did the Bolsheviks begin to take peasant tax in cash?

Answer 14

To encourage peasants to sell grain.

Question 15

Who stated that the NEP was a “strategic retreat”?

Answer 15

E.H. Carr

Question 16

Who claimed that Lenin “adapted realistically to crisis” showing “willingness to compromise ideology”?

Answer 16

Sheila Fitzpatrick

Question 17

Who claimed that Lenin was a ruthless dictator who relied on repression rather than popularity?

Answer 17

Robert Service