reasons why left wing bolsheviks hated the NEP

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    • the kind of society it created such as nepmen who got rich form it and the evils of capitalism such as crime, prostitution, corruption, gambling and alcoholism
    • 1923 'scissors crisis' when grain prices were low and industrial prices too high
    • it gave too much power to the peasantry as if they stopped grain the bolsheviks would face bread riots
    • it wasn't communist enough as business owners were running factories for profits, private trade profited and peasants selling grain profited showing too much capitalism
    • lenin was worries that the new would cause a split in the party and if this happened the bolsheviks might loose their grip on power. so to prevent this he introduced a ban of factions at he tenth party congress 1921 and anyone who did forma a faction would be expelled from the party
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