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I've been reading lately about Lenin's New Economic Policy and it seems to be a potential alternative to the Five Year Plans.
Now obviously in order for it to stay in place Stalin would have to not rise to power, but would any other party higher-ups continue a similar policy?
Perhaps Bukharin?
Were there some dire flaws to it that I'm missing?
How would the history of the Soviet Union progress differently?
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