ABSTRACT
Under the conditions of the New Economic Policy, which means freedom to enrich oneself, to accumulate, and to employ wage labor in both urban and rural petty production, the evolution of a capitalist farmer class—a process that had been interrupted by the revolution—will begin anew. The New Economic Policy will be partially abolished; after a period of partial denationalization, there will once again be intensified nationalization of the areas that are profitable for the Soviet state to nationalize. It is impossible to predict all kinds of external complications that might not only sever our economic ties with the capitalist countries but will also most effectively retard even that part of socialist construction that is based on the domestic resources of the Republic. It is precisely from the countryside that we have to expect the outbreak of the conflict that will be brought to a head by the New Economic Policy.
