Lenin Resources on NEP

 

NEP Resources, Lenin and Kollontai

The list below includes speeches and articles an pamphlets written by Lenin between 1918 (in the midst of the Civil War an famines), and 1922 (after which a stroke greatly reduced his leadership). The articles address the need to shift from War Communism (a command economy, at best) to a Commanding Heights strategy of socialist management of an essentially state monopoly capitalist economy. This policy was mostly abandoned under the Stalin leadership after 1927.

Title	Date	comment	URL
The New Economic Policy And The Tasks Of The Political Education Departments Report To The Second All-Russia Congress Of Political Education Departments	October 17, 1921	communists can run capitalism better than capitalists	link
Eleventh Congress Of The R.C.P.	March 27-April 2, 1922	left opposition == bureaucracy	link
Draft Directive Of The Political Bureau On The New Economic Policy	January 9 and 12, 1922	Suppressing factionalism on NEP	link
Draft Theses on the Role and Functions of The Trade Unions Under the New Economic Policy	January 4, 1922	A summary trade union rights and duties in a mixed economy with Workers Party in power	link
Third Congress Of The Communist International	June 22-July 12, 1921	Introducing NEP to the 3rd International	link
Tenth All-Russian Conference of the R.C.P	May 26-28, 1921	The Tax in Kind, beginning of NEP, grows out of food famine in Civil  War.	link
To Comrade Krzhizhanovsky The Presidium Of The State Planning Commission	14 May, 1921	Confronting the lessons of War Communism	link
Plan Of The Pamphlet The Tax In Kind	Late March and early April of 1921	Draft of  the Tax in Kind plan	link
Meeting of the Communist Group of the All-Russia Central Council of Trade Unions	April 11, 1921	Arguing with the Left Opposition on concessions to foreign capital	link
Report on the Tax in Kind Delivered at a Meeting of Secretaries and Responsible Representatives of R.C.P	April 9, 1921	Why is the peasantry, and its markets, necessary? Workers need food.	link
Once Again On The Trade Unions The Current Situation and the Mistakes of Trotsky and Buhkarin	25 January, 1921	Trotsky and Bukharin became the Left Opposition and its "Buffer" -- closely related to the emerging tax in kind debates and the changed role of trade unions.	link
The Trade Unions, The Present Situation And Trotsky’s Mistakes	30 December, 1920	ditto	link
Theses On The Current Situation	May 1918	a split on econ policy evolving in the famine and the civil war	link
The Workers Opposition -- By Alexandra Kollontai	January 25, 1921	Kollontai's defense o f the Workers Opposition	link