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the tenth congress in march 1921 lenin formulated the two principal
lessons of kronstadt. the first concerned the need to make
concessions to the rural population: 揙nly an accommodation with the
peasantry can save the socialist revolution in russia.?the second
lesson emphasized the need to step up the struggle against any
vestiges of ideological opposition, including moderate socialists,
anarchists, and others, and ensure that the opposition was
effectively prevented from agitating among the masses. the adoption
of lenin抯 strategy by the congress ushered in a period of several
years (1921?8) of relatively peaceful development, known as the new
economic policy (nep). |
during this period the government sought to conduct its domestic
policy along two not easily compatible directions. on the one hand,
the economic policy was revised and the economy was freed from the
total state regulation of war communism. on the other hand, no
liberalization was permitted in the political sphere: all attempts
to democratize society were relentlessly stamped out. the
discrepancy between economic liberalization and political
dictatorship constituted the main contradiction inherent in the nep.
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