The NEP or New Economic Policy was a series of economic policies decreed by the Soviet government after 1921. The goal was to reactivate the disastrous economy of the civil war years, stimulate food production and supply. It was a concession to reality against Marxist theory and a centralized economic management. It allowed again private property, retail trade and small businesses and produced economic recovery. But it was actually a temporary measure to allow the Communists to consolidate their power and hold of the economy.
