NEP Lessons From History

The film tells about the dynamics of the NEP development and the reasons that led to the collapse of this economic policy in connection with the victory of the administrative-command course in governing the country in the 1920s. Part 2 People are walking along the square, selling vegetables. Tram movement. Newsreel footage: 1922-1923: Red Army men stand at the entrance to one of the buildings on the territory of the Moscow Kremlin, letting in the incoming men. Panorama of the consequences of the Civil War: destruction at one of the railway junctions. 1923-1925: Meeting [VSNKh]. The peasant pours grain from the sack, women rake the grain on a current. The work of spinning, weaving and other looms at the enterprises of the country .The leaders of the Soviet state I.V. Stalin, V.M. Molotov, M.I. Kalinin, K.E. Voroshilov, L.M. Kaganovich pass through the territory of the Moscow Kremlin in a group of participants in one of the meetings. General view of Red Square and the building of the 2nd wooden Mausoleum of V.I. Lenin. There is a group of peasants with axes, saws and other tools. The peasants are putting the straw from the heap on the cart. Straw chopping unit operation, winder operation. Mowers sharpen their braids before mowing. Chairman of the State Planning Committee Smilga at one of the meetings of the Supreme Council of the National Economy. Smelting metal in the shops of metallurgical enterprises. Metallurgists at work. Smoke factory chimneys. The leaders of the Soviet state on the podium of the Mausoleum of V.I. Lenin; among those present: I.V. Stalin, N.I. Bukharin, A. Yenukidze, V.M. Molotov. Chairman of the OGPU, Chairman of the Supreme Economic Council of the USSR F.E. Dzerzhinsky. 1924-1926: V.M. Molotov on the territory of the Moscow Kremlin, talking with a man. The leaders of the Soviet state, headed by I.V. Stalin passed through the territory of the Kremlin; among them: V.M. Molotov, L.M. Kaganovich, K.E. Voroshilov and others. Speech by I.V. Stalin at one of the meetings. Those present in the hall are applauding; among those present at the meeting: S.M. Budyonny, A.I. Egorov, [S.S. Kamenev] and other Moscow. People on one of the city streets at the window of the private store L.V.Persitsa “Galoshes. Rubber. Oilcloth. Toys ". The window displays advertisements calling for a boycott of the store. View of another store “Retail store. Silkotrest ". Moskvoshvey store on Petrovka. The audience walks along the street past the shop windows, passing cars, a cab. General view of the demonstration of workers in the evening. Demonstrators carry a banner with the inscription "DEATH TO AGENTS OF THE POINCARE WAR." A demonstration in one of the squares. A photograph showing V.I. Lenin in the group of delegates to the Xth Conference of the RCP (b) in the Sverdlovsk Hall of the Kremlin. Chair type V.I. Lenin from his office in the Kremlin. Photo collage: members of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b). Portrait of I.V. Stalin.

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sound engineer N. Shkayevskaya, editor L. Yelizheva