History GCSE
New Economic Policy (NEP)
What New Economic Policy (NEP) means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of New Economic Policy (NEP)
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
A policy allowing private farming that Stalin saw as a retreat to capitalism and that led to a grain procurement crisis by 1927.
Topics that use New Economic Policy (NEP)
- Option 30: Key topic 4: Economic and social changes, 1924–41 - 1 Agriculture and collectivisation (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Collectivisation
- Economic efficiency
- Holodomor
- Ideological implementation
- Kulaks
- Political consolidation
- Collectives
- Grain procurement crisis
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