Commerce, corruption and control: Bolshevik approaches to trade, 1917-1923Tools Nicholson, Joseph (2019) Commerce, corruption and control: Bolshevik approaches to trade, 1917-1923. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.
AbstractThis thesis studies the Bolshevik party's approaches to trade during the Russian revolution, civil war, and the early years of the New Economic Policy (1917-1923). It adopts three perspectives. One of these is theoretical. It covers the beliefs and stereotypes party members held about capitalist trade, the economic and social roles they attributed to it, and their visions of how goods would be exchanged under socialism. The thesis also considers policy approaches. It examines the steps the party leadership actually took after coming to power to try to shape the way goods were exchanged in the country, whether in a bid to put their theories into reality, or as practical responses to the challenges facing them at the time. Thirdly, the thesis analyses the approaches of party-state functionaries responsible for implementing these policies at ground level. It studies their attitudes towards the central leadership, the ways they understood its directives, and how they attempted to implement them, where indeed, they did so.
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