Harrison, Mark, 1949-. (1980) Why did NEP fail? Economics of Planning , Vol.16 (No.2). pp. 57-67. ISSN 1573-9414

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Why did NEP fail? I should like to distinguish three ways in which this question has been answered, indicating why the third appears to me to be the most satisfactory. In the first view, NEP was abandoned because it was inconsistent with any further industrial development of a socialist kind, and its abandonment was therefore a rational economic decision. In the second view, strongly reacting against the first, NEP is seen as consistent with a wide variety of development patterns, including the industrial development actually achieved in the inter-war Five Year Plans. Therefore the abandonment of NEP had no strictly economic rationale, but was an outcome of brute political struggles and the formation of the Stalinist political system. In the third view, NEP is seen as inconsistent with the degree and rate of industrialization actually undertaken from 1928 onwards, but contained the possibility of alternative development patterns involving a lesser commitment to industrial growth. In this case, the abandonment of NEP was neither simply rational (according to the first view) nor irrational (according to the second), but was the outcome of a political conflict over the course of Soviet economic development.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > DK Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Soviet Union -- Economic conditions -- 20th century, Industrial productivity -- Soviet Union, Soviet Union -- Economic policy -- 20th century
Journal or Publication Title:	Economics of Planning
Publisher:	Springer New York LLC
ISSN:	1573-9414
Date:	January 1980
Volume:	Vol.16
Number:	No.2
Page Range:	pp. 57-67
Identification Number:	10.1007/BF00365571
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Access rights to Published version:	Open Access
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