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Lenin's New Economic Policy: Communism's Flirtation with Capitalism

The NEP introduced limited capitalism in 1921 to revive Russia's economy but was abandoned in 1928 when Stalin collectivised farms and nationalised industry.
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Consequences of the Bolshevik Revolution

The long-term goal of the Bolsheviks, who took power by force in Russia in November 1917, was a fairer society where workers and peasants were not exploited by wealthy capitalists. The more immediate consequences, though, of the Bolshevik Revolution were the replacement of the Provisional Government by a highly centralised one-party state, the nationalisation of industries, the radical redistribution of land to the peasantry,
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