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New Economic Policy (1921)

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Mar 1921 — At the 10th Party Congress, with Kronstadt still smoking, Lenin ends grain requisitioning and legalizes small trade: “We are retreating in order to make a better leap.” Survival bought by strategic retreat.

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Turning point
Chapter
From War Communism to the NEP (chapter 13 of Russian Revolution)
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The Russian Revolution, 1855–1924
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