NEW ECONOMIC POLICY IN THE USSR: MAIN RESULTS

The article deals with the main results of the new economic policy in the USSR. It is shown that the tactical goal of the NEPa was to overcome the crisis by strengthening the economic union of workers and peasants, cities and villages. The strategic goal of the NEPa was to build socialism, the leap to which through "war communism" was unsuccessful. The transition from capitalism to socialism required a transitional period. The focus was on the countryside. It became the link by grasping which the Bolsheviks intended to solve the entire chain of historical tasks facing them.