21 March 1921: The New Economic Policy (N.E.P.)—Shaken by the Kronstadt Rebellion against "War Communism," Lenin re-introduced a degree of private property & enterprise, supported by Stalin but opposed by Trotsky; the N.E.P.'s "state capitalism" was deemed necessary to fit agricultural Russia into Marxist theories of industrial revolution; successful "Nepmen" arose as a class of nouveau riche.
Lest we forget.
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