Impact of NEP

• 1923 - cereal production up by 23%

  • grain price drops and price of goods go up
• Nepmen in 1923 handled 3/4 of industrial trade - new middle class
• never exported more than 3 million grains
• urban workers

  • bourgeoise specialists were objected to
  • 1928 real wages only just passing pre war level
  • unemployment hits 15%
  • workers complained about wealth divide and food gap
  • women lose jobs and end up on streets
  • six or seven people living in one room - gangs emerge
  • Stalin forced grain requisitioning - highlighted NEP broken