LEADER 02618pam 2200589 a 450 001 9910495891103321 005 20230829001109.0 010 $a0-520-91059-1 010 $a0-585-08129-8 024 7 $a2027/heb05393 035 $a(CKB)111004366704216 035 $a(MH)001302707-7 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000240322 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11924959 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000240322 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10265721 035 $a(PQKB)10884288 035 $a(dli)HEB05393 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000007009174 035 $a(DE-B1597)648889 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520910591 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004366704216 100 $a19860828d1987 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmnummmmuuuu 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRussia's last capitalists $ethe Nepmen, 1921-1929 /$fAlan M. Ball 205 $a1st paperback printing. 210 0 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc1987 215 $a1 online resource (xvii, 226 p., [8] p. of plates )$cill. ; 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-520-05717-1 311 $a0-520-07174-3 320 $aBibliography: p. 209-216. 330 $aIn 1921 Lenin surprised foreign observers and many in his own Party, by calling for the legalization of private trade and manufacturing. Within a matter of months, this New Economic Policy (NEP) spawned many thousands of private entrepreneurs, dubbed Nepmen. After delineating this political background, Alan Ball turns his attention to the Nepmen themselves, examining where they came from, how they fared in competition with the socialist sector of the economy, their importance in the Soviet economy, and the consequences of their "liquidation" at the end of the 1920s. Alan Ball's history of this experiment with capitalism is strikingly relevant to current efforts toward economic reform in the USSR. 606 $aEconomic History$2HILCC 606 $aBusiness & Economics$2HILCC 607 $aSoviet Union$xEconomic policy$y1917-1928 615 7$aEconomic History 615 7$aBusiness & Economics 676 $a338.947 700 $aBall$b Alan M$0508948 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 801 2$bHLS 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910495891103321 996 $aRussia's last capitalists$9773416 997 $aUNINA 999 $aThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress