Episode 101 - NEP Life

The first peacetime order of business in the new USSR was to re-build the economy. And to do that, they had to liberalize and turn towards a kind of state capitalism that was dubbed the New Economic Policy, the NEP. It wasn't perfect, and the new imbalances it created started conflicts in the Communist Party. 

 

Bibliography for this episode: 

 

1. Hosking, Geoffrey Russia and the Russians: A History The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2001
2. Figes, Orlando A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1917 Penguin Books 1998
3. Smith, SA Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis 1890-1928 Oxford University Press 2018
4. Fitzpatrick, Sheila The Russian Revolution, 4th Edition Oxford University Press 2017
5. Kotkin, Stephen Stalin: Paradoxes of Power 1878-1928 Penguin Books 2015
6. Suny, Ronald Grigor The Cambridge History of Russia, Vol III: The Twentieth Century Cambridge University Press 2006

 

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