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Why did Lenin compromise between the ideas of capitalism and communism in creating the NEP?
Officially unknown but many predict it was to smoothen the ideological transition
What is NEP?
NEP is New Economic Policy. This was Vladimir Lenin's plan to introduce some aspects of capitalism back into the socialist economy in order to improve the economy.
When did Lenin's NEP or New Economic Policy end?
After the conflict over his succession ended with Stalin taking over.
What was the result of Lenin's new economic policy?
Lenin's NEP never did lead to communism. In fact, the NEP was a controversial return to capitalism in the areas of agriculture and small businesses. In that respect, it was a retreat from socialism and the anticipated march toward communism. Lenin introduced it as a temporary measure to bolster a failing economy, which threatened to lead to another revolution which would have swept him and the Bolsheviks out of power for exactly the same reasons the Tsar and then the Provisional Government were swept out of power.
Could Stalin have industrialized under Lenin's New Economic Policy or did he have to abandon it?
It is possible that Stalin could have continued it and industrialized under it, but it was too hard already under his current Communist regime. The NEP and its underlying capitalist values just could not let Stalin's power remain as effective.
