How and Why was the NEP introduced??

Lenin and the Bolsheviks in a struggle to withhold power implemented the new economic policy. Massive peasant revolts all over Russia threatened Bolshevik power. Peasants were striking against Russias’ economy and conditions, however particularly about war communism, i.e., the forcible requisition of food and produce in order to keep the red army and cities supplied. The NEP saw the recovery of the Russian economy and the increase in produce from farmers. It was a time of relevant cultural freedom.

Lenin realized that the radical approach to communism was unsuited to conditions existing at the time and put the survival of his regime at risk. With the Kronsdadt or “red sailors” rebelling about war communism and the Bolsheviks’ un-democratic rule. The Kronstadt revolt was brutally put down by Trotsky (then War Commissar) and Tukhachevsky (a successful Russian general), who led troops over the frozen sea to the island base. The government condemned the revolt as a "White ...