New economic policy: problems of study
The article analyzes the historical and political literature on the New Economic Policy, which was proclaimed in 1921. It is shown that the initiator of the NEP was not V.I. Lenin, but the Mensheviks. Among the Bolsheviks, the first initiator of the NEP was L.D. Trotsky. The article also shows that the main element of the NEP was not only the replacement of surplus appropriation with a tax, but a stable monetary and financial system, a deficit - free budget and a strong ruble. The main problem of the NEP is considered as a contradiction between the market principles of economic development and centrally planned management. This contradiction between the need to develop a market economy and the Soviet political system, dominated by socialist imperatives of equality, was characteristic of the entire Soviet period and, in the end, ruined everything.