Organizational-legal forms of private commercial enterprises in the industry of the RSFSR du-ring the New Economic Policy (1921-1929)
The article defines the features of an understanding of the term «organizational-legal form of enterprise» during the studied period, and the classification particularly of legal forms of private industrial enterprises. The factors influenced the development of legislation on legal forms of enterprises in the period of New Economic Policy (NEP) are described. We study the organizational-legal forms that prevailed in large- and medium-scale non-state industry (concession agreement, lease, joint-stock company, syndicate) as well as those prevailed in the small private industry (joint property, various kinds of business partnerships). It is concluded that the legislation contained a lot of contentious innovations, connected with the willingness of the legislator intentionally to degrade the legal status of private industry.