Russia's Last Capitalists
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1920s
A01=Alan M. Ball
Author_Alan M. Ball
business economics
capitalism
capitalist experiment
Category=KCZ
Category=NHD
Category=NHTB
communist party
comparative economics
early 20th century
economic competition
economic historians
economic reform
entrepreneurs
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eq_business-finance-law
eq_history
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eq_non-fiction
ideologies
lenin
liquidation
nep
new economic policy
nonfiction
political history
political science
private manufacturing
private trade
russia
socialism communism
socialist economy
soviet economy
soviet union
the nepmen
trade and industry
ussr
world history
Product details
- ISBN 9780520071742
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 18 Sep 1990
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In 1921 Lenin surprised foreign observers and many in his own Party, by calling for the legalization of private trade and manufacturing. Within a matter of months, this New Economic Policy (NEP) spawned many thousands of private entrepreneurs, dubbed Nepmen. After delineating this political background, Alan Ball turns his attention to the Nepmen themselves, examining where they came from, how they fared in competition with the socialist sector of the economy, their importance in the Soviet economy, and the consequences of their "liquidation" at the end of the 1920s. Alan Ball's history of this experiment with capitalism is strikingly relevant to current efforts toward economic reform in the USSR.
Alan M. Ball is Associate Professor of History at Marquette University.
