What Was Lenin's New Economic Policy? AP Euro Bit by Bit #40

In the wake of the Russian Revolution and mired in a civil war, Vladimir Lenin made major changes to the Russian economy. These changes reflected his awareness of political and social realities (as well as economic ones), but they also reveal Lenin's willingness to adjust when needed. This time, I'll discuss his New Economic Policy and the results it had on the Soviet Union. I hope you enjoy it.

[@alfalafelstine1536]

A few notes: -Trotsky actually proposed the basic ideas of the NEP before Lenin. -The NEP wasn't quite an abandonment of Communism. It was mostly lightening up on the peasantry, who had suffered the most from the Civil War. The peasants and workers were in an alliance, and compromises had to be made to ensure that union remained intact. -Because of how backwards Russia was, the traditional stereotypes and classic policies of Marxism don't really apply. Lenin and Trotsky knew full Socialism couldn't be immediately implemented. The video points out that they implemented something vaguely resembling socialism in the more advanced economic sectors, while leaving markets alone in backwards peasant sectors. This is how they tried to address unequal development. -The parts on censorship and other repressive measures were really unrelated to the NEP, except that both were the repeal of temporary crisis measures from the war.

[@ahmadfikrijaafar1791]

@vitoduval yeah. China manage to reforms it according to lenin NEP

[@OtherM112594]

Excellent points

[@nessawessa888]

TYSM!

[@Komrad_Cybersyn]

Trotsky's irrelevant. He first opposed the policy of "war communism" to be abolished after the civil war, calling it a betrayal of the revolution. Even though it had nothing of "communist" in it. He then went on to support forced collectivisation, being part of the ultra-left of the party. Trotsky is unreliable. LENIN: ”What a swine this Trotsky is-Left phrases, and a bloc with the Right…” -”Letter to Alexandra Kollontai” (1917)

[@BenadrylEnjoyer]

trotsky opposed the nep

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[@anastasiataylor5423]

omg thank you so much for this video, i have my russia history exam today and i was completely clueless as to what the nep is and now i hope it comes up!

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[@norzangsonam9974]

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[@travelwithhalie6478]

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[@paytonmcdermott9111]

Its so fascinating, I wonder if Russia had stuck to NEP if they could have been where China is today back in the 70s. Trade liberalization would still be needed but the U.S. may have been more open to it if they could meet Russian capitalists and see something familiar

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[@miamidolphinsfan]

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[@user-zk8dy3sl5s]

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[@glitch_fiendespanol9364]

what is the process of enclosure Paul?

[@mojakhaha]

One thing to note, though, was that production during NEP was pretty much the same as during the Romanov reign

[@kibbles5724]

Well the 1930s was pretty bad for everyone since it was the great depression.... Great presentation by the way. Fair and balanced.

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[@charlieclarke1084]

Could you please do a summary of start of revolution please !!

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[@PaulSargentMakesHistory]

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[@ankitshukla1238]

simple and staright forward explanation. although a few more russian terms could have been used

[@johntrevy1]

The NEP wasn't all roses and petals though, Lenin operated via the "Carrot and stick". Those who towed the line were rewarded, those who didn't were serverly punished.

[@allhero1450]

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[@Saadysalma]

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[@PaulSargentMakesHistory]

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[@Oh_hey_there]

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[@lovelymondal5359]

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[@Komrad_Cybersyn]

Trotsky wasn't the main opposition in the party. At his heigth, he only managed to form a block of 4000 in the party, against 700 000 supporting Stalin. No, when Lenin died, the more serious contender were Bukarin (very popular), Zinoviev (influential) and Stalin (Lenin protege and a solid workhorse).

[@laman012]

This was actually a poorly done, deeply mistaken recap of the NEP. The first and most glaring fallacy is based upon the idea that communism and socialism are things that leaders can just declare. "Ok, nationalize everything. We're socialist now!" This isn't how it works. To establish socialism requires certain material preconditions (hence the Marxist theory of historical materialism). Lenin, correctly of course, assessed that the Russian Empire was not yet ready for socialism because it was lacking certain material conditions and productive capabilities that are required for a socialist superstructure and base. Therefore, the goal of the NEP was to establish what Lenin called, "state capitalism" to progress industrialization. Another key thing that people misunderstand is that socialists and communists aren't against capitalism per se, because capitalism is an important step on the way to Marxist socialism and the ultimate goal of a stateless, classless communist society. Since the Bolsheviks had already achieved the capture of the Russian state, they couldn't use bourgeois private capitalism to develop their industry, they had to use a different type of capitalism. Socialism is not, in the Marxist-leninist tradition, used for industrialization but occurs after industrialization is complete. Using state capitalism was extremely successful for the soviet economy. When you compare the growth rates of the Russain economy in the 1920s and 1930s to the rest of the world, it was booming. It went from a backward agricultural serfdom to an industrial power in 2 decades. No other country in the history of the world has accomplished such a feat. They had to take a pragmatic and not an ideological approach to industrialization. They put the first human into space within 30 years of founding the country. They had world class arts and universities. All achieved from a backward, war torn country within one generation.

[@somerandompersonidk2272]

With the deaths of millions to make it so that they were able to grow so fast.

[@Justme-fz1ng]

@@somerandompersonidk2272 Nonsense. albertvalente.wordpress.com/2013/07/23/on-the-number-of-deaths-in-stalins-ussr

[@RNTSH7]

Not to mention all the people, land and industry they lost in the process of leaving WW1 and had to develop back

[@Papa-ur3ju]

Grow up kid, capitalism with supreme order of government just works

[@johntrevy1]

@@Papa-ur3ju Oh yes USA is doing just great right now. How many trilion (And change) in debt is there now?

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[@Fluffylargespike]

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[@Lavez]

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[@glitch_fiendespanol9364]

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[@ellie2829]

as much as all of this is true, it was really just returning to pre- war production. The only thing that did remarkably better was electricity

[@nickvliet4614]

5:28 you sound surprised lol

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[@oriba8156]

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[@wadiefaridhaddad7429]

另一方面，威斯敏斯特的制度优于其他制度，并不是仅仅是英语发明。 比如，它很容易地回到萨拉丁，我确信我们可以从历史中汲取许多例子。 但我们有反对派是很自然的。 最方言的语。 最优秀的马克思主义者。 矛盾 因此喘不过反对派，萨拉丁必须很好地沟通，如果错误的话，不妥善地安装，他的朋友有责任纠正它，纠正它。 无所事事，无所事事。

[@internetphone3035]

Farmer: I own cow Gov: We will take your cow Farmer: If they take cow I have nothing. If I kill cow at least I have meat. So it does make sense why the farmers killed their livestock. One of those unintentional incentives created by policy.

[@will5023]

nepgya?

[@wadiefaridhaddad7429]

Pas question de Capitalisme vs communisme. S’il était du tout concurrence, pas question , le communisme, du coup l’emportera. Au moins Question d’Organisation..mais voilà, le monde objectif est beaucoup plus compliqué qu’on l’imagine. Il ya des choses qui iront mal si elles deviennent centralisées, par contre il y en a des autres qui DOIVENT ETRE du domaine publique. Pas question qu’on doit avoir SÉPARATION DE L’ETAT ( QUESTION DE FOI ) . Et on sait maintenant que les entreprises doivent autant être séparées, sinon, un état propriétaire ne peut empêcher les soucis de contrôle, de sape de Sécurité nationale. ? C’est le problème contemporain des relations Américaines, chinoises. On a peur, on a des suspicions , ça ne va pas. C’est pas conducif à la paix, à la confiance..bien le contraire. Ça augmente MÉFIANCE et tension..

[@wadiefaridhaddad7429]

depuis, la Science psychiatrique ( prof Okasha De l'université de Ein Shams du Caire. ( démontre en plus, que des personnes en autorité, lorsque leur période est excédée, en faite huit ans, ça présage pas du tout de bonnes choses, ni pour la personne qui s’empare de la chaise, ni de l’entreprise, quelque qu'elle soit, dont cette personne s’est fait la sienne.par contre, Santé publique, Santé, en général, ça ne va pas bien du tout lors de privatisation. On souffre trop et en faite, COVID19 démontre clairement qu’on doit tous, tout le monde SUR TERRE , en faite, accéder au même de la médecine et des sciences contemporaines..

[@wadiefaridhaddad7429]

rén lèi jīng lì le gè gè jiē duàn 。 jī xīn gé bó shì miáo shù le zhōng guó bì xū cǎi qǔ de bù zòu ， zhì shǎo yào dào dá zhōng guó de wèi zhì 。 jǐn kě néng duō dì cóng zhēn zhèng wú fǎ chéng shòu de pín kùn zhōng jiě tuō chū lái de rén bù shǎo 。 wǒ men réng rán kě yǐ zài quán qiú qí tā dì fāng guān chá dào .. lìng yī fāng miàn ， chún zī běn zhǔ yì dǎo zhì dì guó zhǔ yì .. dǎo zhì zhàn zhēng ， dǎo zhì wǔ qì shāng pǐn ， duì dì qiú ， rén xìng bù kě nì zhuǎn de pò huài .. jià zhí guān niàn ， wǎng luò kōng jiān de cún zài ， ér bù shì zì rán jiè zhōng de shēng mìng de dào lái zī běn zhǔ yì háo wú zhēng yì dì zhǐ xiàng shēn yuān ， zhǐ yǒu hé lǐ huà ： shè huì ， rén dào zhǔ yì cái néng zhěng jiù 。 shàng gè shì jì 50 nián dài de zá zhì ESPRIT miáo shù le mǎ kè sī zhǔ yì zhě hé shàn yì de zōng jiào rú hé néng gòu gòng tóng gǎi shàn rén lèi de shēng huó zhuàng kuàng 。

[@wadiefaridhaddad7429]

没有资本主义和共产主义。 如果是竞争，而不是质疑，共产主义，那么就赢了。 至少，本组织的问题，但在这里，客观世界比我们想象的复杂得多。 如果这些东西变得集中，会有一些事情会出问题，但还有其他一些人现在已经成为公共领域。 毫无疑问,我们必须对国家进行搜查. 我们现在知道公司必须分开很多，否则，所有制国家不能防止控制问题，国家安全事业。 这是当代美国 、 中国关系的问题. 我们害怕，我们可疑，我们不好。 它不有利于和平，信任。 它增加了温和和紧张局势。 méi yǒu zī běn zhǔ yì hé gòng chǎn zhǔ yì 。 rú guǒ shì jìng zhēng ， ér bù shì zhí yí ， gòng chǎn zhǔ yì ， nà me jiù yíng le 。 zhì shǎo ， běn zǔ zhī de wèn tí ， dàn zài zhè lǐ ， kè guān shì jiè bǐ wǒ men xiǎng xiàng de fù zá dé duō 。 rú guǒ zhè xiē dōng xī biàn dé jí zhōng ， huì yǒu yī xiē shì qíng huì chū wèn tí ， dàn huán yǒu qí tā yī xiē rén xiàn zài yǐ jīng chéng wèi gōng gòng lǐng yù 。 háo wú yí wèn , wǒ men bì xū duì guó jiā jìn xíng sōu chá . wǒ men xiàn zài zhī dào gōng sī bì xū fēn kāi hěn duō ， fǒu zé ， suǒ yǒu zhì guó jiā bù néng fáng zhǐ kòng zhì wèn tí ， guó jiā ān quán shì yè 。 zhè shì dāng dài měi guó 、 zhōng guó guān xì de wèn tí . wǒ men hài pà ， wǒ men kě yí ， wǒ men bù hǎo 。 tā bù yǒu lì yú hé píng ， xìn rèn 。 tā zēng jiā le wēn hé hé jǐn zhāng jú shì 。

[@djangogeek]

Sounds like social democracy

[@ad3l547]

So basically, it was an Deng Xiapoing policy but for Backward countries like Russia ?

[@blueciffer1653]

No

[@wadiefaridhaddad7429]

Santé publique, Santé, en général, ça ne va pas bien du tout lors de privatisation. On souffre trop et en faite, COVID19 démontre clairement qu’on doit tous, tout le monde SUR TERRE , en faite, accéder au même de la médecine et des sciences contemporaines.. L’humanité passe par stages. Dr Kissinger décrit les étapes la Chine à du franchir, pour au moins arriver où la Chine est. C’est pas peu..extraire tant de gens, tant bien que mal d’une pauvreté vraiment insupportable. Qu’on observe encor dans d’autres parties du globe.. par contre capitalisme, pur, mène à Impérialisme.. aux guerres, à la marchandise des armes, à la destruction irréversible de la terre, de la nature humaine..des valeurs, et l’arrivée à une existence cyberspace, au lieu de vie en nature. Capitalisme mène sans aucun argument vers l’abysse, que seul la rationalisation : sociale, humanitaire, peut peut-être sauver. ESPRIT, la revue des cinquantaine du siècle dernier, décrit comment les marxistes et les religieux de bonne volonté PEUVENT VENIR ENSEMBLE pour améliorer la condition humaine..

[@wadiefaridhaddad7429]

D’autre part le système de Westminster est supérieur aux autres, c’est pas que c’est invention Anglaise seulement. Ça remonte facilement à Saladin, par exemple, et je suis sûr, qu’on puisse puiser dans l’Histoire pour trouver tant et tant d’exemples. Mais c’est naturel qu’on ait une Opposition. C’est dialectique. C’est marxiste. La contradiction. Donc étouffer l’Opposition ca ne marche pas, Saladin a bien communiquer son soucis, de ne pas être proprement mis en place s’il fausse, ses amis ont bien le devoir, de le rectifier, de le corriger. Pas question de tout savoir, d’être omnipotent..

[@mikecamacho1892]

Lenin-power to the people The People-we need a leader Lenin-i shall lead the people The people-yay!!! Back to where we started lol

[@wadiefaridhaddad7429]

V. I.列宁：反对战争。 在1916年2月8日在伯尔尼的国际会议上发表演讲，每月一次，正如战争的每一天都在，它变得更加清晰，更清楚地对Zimmerwald =宣言[2]表达了真相的群众 每天都变得越来越明显，这是资本家之间的战争，在大劫匪之间，他在战利品中争吵，每次努力获得最大的股份，最多的掠夺国家，以及最多的国家抑制和奴役的国家。 它可能听起来不可思议，特别是瑞士同志，但在俄罗斯，也是如此，不仅是血腥的沙皇，不仅是资本家，而且还有一部分所谓的或前社会主义者表示，俄罗斯正在争夺“防守战争”， 然而，整个世界都知道，几十年的沙皇一直压迫超过俄罗斯其他民族的一亿人; 这对于几十年来，俄罗斯一直在追求中国，波斯，亚美尼亚和加利西亚的掠夺性政策。 俄罗斯，德国也不是德国，也不是任何其他大力有权声称它正在发动“防御战争”; 所有伟大的权力都是在发动帝国主义者，资本主义战争，一个掠夺者战争，这是一项令人恐惧的小和外国的压迫战争，这是为了获得资本家的利润的战争，他们正在减少金钱利润，占令人震惊的痛苦令人震惊的痛苦。

[@nasalimbu3078]

Industry revution

[@dianelevesque137]

Lénine is the man who gave the order to kill the Romanov family, that's terrible. He died 5 years later.

[@gla9322]

How many Russians were repressed by the Tsar? They deserved it.

[@willpaget5395]

Thankyou for causing terminal suffering for everyone doing Edexcel History.

[@johntrevy1]

I loved GCSE Russian history. History is also a good subject because it gets you in the "Citation needed" mindset.

[@user-ou9yj9bq2z]

Very superficial and primitive analysis. It seems like you retell an article from wiki.

[@damnstuck194]

No its not, it's not supposed to be a deep dive, it's meant for school students (I think) but it still manages to get over all the basic and important points of the nep.

[@wadiefaridhaddad7429]

Il ya plan. L’homme propose, Dieu dispose. On a espoir d’améliorer le sort des gens. Malheureusement, on se heurte aux : " préjugés, aux mauvaises habitudes, au pire de la nature humaine.

[@wadiefaridhaddad7429]

从那以后，精神病学科学（开罗Ein Shams大学的Okasha教授。）此外，证明了当权者超过其任期（实际上是八年）时，这绝不是一件好事，对于主持人或公司，无论该人是什么人，都是自己创造的；另一方面，公共卫生，卫生，通常来说，私有化过程中的一切都不顺利我们实际上遭受了太多的痛苦，COVID19清楚地表明，事实上，我们所有人都必须所有人都能获得医学和当代科学的相同体验。

[@wadiefaridhaddad7429]

Please take notice that it is Lenin who DID SPEAK OUT AGAINST PREDATORY WARS, peasants being lead to Slaughter, as sacrificial lambs .. V. I. Lenin : against war. Speaking out Speech Delivered at an International Meeting in Berne, February 8, 1916[1] each month, as each day of the war goes by, it becomes clearer and clearer to the masses of the workers that the Zimmerwald = Manifesto[2] expressed the truth when it declared that phrases about “defence of the fatherland” and the like are nothing but capitalist deception. It is becoming more evident every day that this is a war between capitalists, between big robbers, who are quarrelling over the loot, each striving to obtain the largest share, the largest number of countries to plunder, and the largest number of nations to suppress and enslave. It may sound incredible, especially to Swiss comrades, but it is nevertheless true that in Russia, also, not only bloody tsarism, not only the capitalists, but also a section of the so-called or ex-Socialists say that Russia is fighting a “war of defence,” that Russia is only fighting against German invasion. The whole world knows, however, that for decades tsarism has been oppressing more than a hundred million people belonging to other nationalities in Russia; that for decades Russia has been pursuing a predatory policy towards China, Persia, Armenia and Galicia. Neither Russia, nor Germany, nor any other Great Power has the right to claim that it is waging a “war of defence”; all the Great Powers are waging an imperialist, capitalist war, a predatory war, a war for the oppression of small and foreign nations, a war for the sake of the profits of the capitalists, who are coining golden profits amounting to billions out of the appalling sufferings of the masses, out of the blood of the proletariat.

[@csul5961]

is it true lenin said to take over a country you 1st need to control the health care and then remove citizen weapons?

[@johnjackson8545]

No lol

[@wadiefaridhaddad7429]

Clearly pragmatism..is an answer humanity

[@manosxaniotakis9271]

novaya ekonomitseskaya politika = new economic policy at russian

[@emokellen]

Do your own homework kids!

[@wadiefaridhaddad7429]

Cher monsieur, c’est pas question de dogmatisme.

[@JoshRoxxas]

why cant you just share information and not your biased opinions?

[@wadiefaridhaddad7429]

Its simply like so, as recently as the 80 or 90's a medical team set out from Beijing China, to treat ethnic minorities in remote China. The equipment was the latest, the most complete BUT THE LOCALS WOULD NOT HAVE IT. In Aussie, the Federal Government is poring more and more money into indigenous Health, using all sorts of strategies, local health people etc. And yet Statistics clearly show that indigenous health is exponentially ( in a down downturn fashion ) falling. There is THAT ASPECT OF HUMAN NATURE. There is also the other : simple cowardice, hypocrisy etc. HUMAN CONDITION IS warts and all, its not a question of Capitalism..please don't be the apologist of chaos, disorganisation, in short EVIL, ignorance and obscurantism..

[@gregorbegger9291]

he did what China did in the late 70's early 80's

[@blueciffer1653]

No.

[@gregorbegger9291]

@@blueciffer1653 I read a book about Lenin and he admitted Socialism doesn’t work

[@manosxaniotakis9271]

nep its introduction of bolsevick socialism

[@brunovudulp]

When you have no more options and reality knocks on your door, at the end of the road there always will be capitalism to save us all.

[@adamfrisk956]

That's some extreme oversimplification.

[@fahim-ev8qq]

vudulp I mean that’s Marxism 101. Capitalism industrialized and then we evolve to communism. So yeah we need capitalism for communism to happen and the Soviet Union didn’t really massively industrialize until Stalin. So yeah ofc capitalism would have been more successful in a semi feudalist state than communism the material means for communism didn’t exist

[@LesPaul2006]

So, Lenin was the first person ever to find out socialism doesn't work.

[@johnjackson8545]

Lmao what?

[@LesPaul2006]

@@johnjackson8545 What was the New Economic Policy of 1921 about, then? Why would Lenin think that the only way to generate wealth is through the free market? It is very curious, don't you think?

[@johnjackson8545]

@@LesPaul2006 considering that Russia had never went through a bourgeois revolution and established capitalism, the NEP was necessary as Marxists do not claim socialism to be possible in isolation according to historical materialism. The material conditions of Russia made the NEP necessary and it was later replaced by socialism

[@LesPaul2006]

@@johnjackson8545 And it ruined the country. And half of Europe. To this day. Great work.

[@johnjackson8545]

@@LesPaul2006 statistically no it didn't. It drastically improved life since the NEP and industrialized dozens of nations.

[@liolio7545]

Being jewish

[@josequiroz8181]

Its time inaccurate but also historically, basically all. it's also bias. lenin try to stablish the "capitalist stated" in order to acquire the capital to hachive a socialist stated. Marxl has nothing to do with going back to capitalist... the kulaks revolt was in 29/33 with stalin no lenin the nep was in 19/20. Lenin was even confront with the fact by the ideological adversaries the russia didn't have the "capital" to make the transition to socialism. how marxl says Lenin implement the nep to try active socialism while at the same time you get your hand on capital using the mean of production.. about the bias of the guy talking crap it's normal in ignorant people

[@angelgood8521]

JESUS LOVES YALL HE SAVES HE IS KING HE IS COMING BACK SOON REPENT RUN TO HIM LOVES YALL

[@soulfuzz368]

Lesson: Even communists know that communism doesn’t work

[@johnjackson8545]

Mfw the NEP ended and they achieved socialism in 1936.

[@soulfuzz368]

@Don't tread on us🐍☭ it’s a joke man relax a little.

[@victoriaqiu6068]

Very helpful video! Enjoyed the pun ;D