The causes and impact of the NEP

PROBLEMS FACING RUSSIA 1921

• ONCE bolsheviks had won against the whites the economy needed rebuilding

FAMINE

• war communism had resulted in peasants hoarding grain
• 1921 wide spread famine

OPPOSITION FROM OUTSIDE THE PARTY

• famine= rebellions against communists
• Tambov uprissing
• Kronstadt rellion- sailors had supported the Bolsheviks but they came from peasant bkgrounds and saw what communism did to them
• demanded end to communist domination, relaxation of war…