Russia's last capitalists : the Nepmen, 1921-1929 / Alan M. Ball.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ball, Alan M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soviet Union--Economic policy--1917-1928.

Soviet Union.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 226 p., [8] p. of plates ) ill. ;

Edition:

1st paperback printing.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c1987.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Tables

Preface to the Paperback Edition

Preface

A Note on Conventions

Terms and Abbreviations

Introduction: The War Communism Prelude

Part I

CHAPTER 1 Building Communism with Bourgeois Hands

CHAPTER 2 NEP's Second Wind

CHAPTER 3 The Bubble Bursts

Part II

CHAPTER 4 "Ordinary Buying and Selling"

CHAPTER 5 Supplying the Nepmen

CHAPTER 6 At the Foot of the Commanding Heights

CHAPTER 7 Secondary Endeavors

An Epilogue and an Assessment

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 209-216.

ISBN:

9780520910591

0520910591

9780585081298

0585081298

OCLC:

1419789176

Publisher Number:

2027/heb05393 hdl