Restoration and Development of the Altai Industry: the Experience of the NEP

Abstract

The article examines the main directions of the development of the New Economic Policy (NEP) in the Altai industry, highlights the features of its implementation associated with regional specifics, which largely determined the features of the NEP formation in the industrial sector. At the same time, the restoration of industry is considered in the context of partial liberalization of the economy during the period of the NEP, it is concluded that there are conditions for the development of the industrial sector. Along with the characteristics of different forms of ownership, a comparative analysis of public, private and leased enterprises is given. It is indicated that regarding industry, the Soviet government limited itself only to the rejection of the state monopoly and free market orientation for industrial enterprises. Restrictive and often contradictory measures of the Soviet government concerning to the private sector led to a change in the forms and methods of activity of the Nepmans, hindered the concentration of capital in industry. Nevertheless, private enterprises, the bulk of which in Altai were small, artisanal enterprises, played an important role in saturating the market with everyday goods.