| | History of the Soviet Union - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | The Soviet NEP (1921-29) was essentially a period of "market socialism" similar to the Dengist reforms in Communist China after 1978 in that both foresaw a role for private entrepreneurs and limited markets based on trade and pricing rather than fully centralized planning. |
 | | As an interesting aside, during the first meeting in the early 1980s between Deng Xiaoping and Armand Hammer, a US industrialist and prominent investor in Lenin's Soviet Union, Deng pressed Hammer for as much information on the NEP as possible. |
 | | During the NEP period, agricultural yields not only recovered to the levels attained before the Bolshevik Revolution, but greatly improved. |
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