*The two features of Lenin' new economic policy are given as**
- The NEP kept the economy firmly in the hands of the Bolshevik controlled state and made this state yet more bourgeois. Effectively the NEP cemented the power of the Bolsheviks as a permanent committee of public safety.
- The NEP allowed the temporary production of surplus agricultural commodities by peasants and small rural capitalists, this solved an immediate food supply crisis for urban workers, this is normally considered a good thing
