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Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky
The New Economic Policy
-By 1921, Lenin realized the economy wasn't coming back after War Communism.
-No one would work hard enough because they get paid the same anyways
-need a bit of capitalism to make communism work
-Lenin brought in the NEP allowing some private trade.
-Peasants could sell surplus (if you make more, you can sell)
-did this till economy went back up then he pulled this policy out again
-No one would work hard enough because they get paid the same anyways
-need a bit of capitalism to make communism work
-Lenin brought in the NEP allowing some private trade.
-Peasants could sell surplus (if you make more, you can sell)
-did this till economy went back up then he pulled this policy out again
Summary
A bit of captalism was used to get the economy of communism back.