Lenin’s New Economic Policy And Its Enlightenment

Lenin’s new economic policy was formed into the theory of economic policy system after Russian October Revolution victory, and is important content of Lenin’s socialist economic construction theory. Effectively combining the Russia’s basic national conditions at the time and the Marxist basic principle, Lenin creatively put forward the new economic policy. Therefore, researching the specific content of Lenin’s new economic policy and the reasons why it was ended, it has an important theoretical value and instructive for the economic development of other socialist countries, especially for the construction and improvement of the Chinese characteristic socialist market economy.Firstly, the paper expounds the theory and specific practice of Lenin’s new economic policy. Through deeply rethinking the late influence of wartime communism policy and exploring how to transit to socialism continuously, Lenin raised new economic policy, such as implementing grain tax policy, developing business, using the state capitalism, and adopting the distribution according to work in the socialist transformation, to improve the political and economic crisis faced by Soviet Russia. The implementation of these policies made the Soviet Russia’s national economy get an unprecedented development, and people’s material life were improved significantly. It also provides the theoretical guidance for socialist country with backward economy and culture, and enriched and developed socialism of Marxist theory. However, as the thought of the new economic policy was not comprehensive enough, and the relationship between Russia and the international was particularly tense, and the leaders headed by Stalin dogmatically practice the Marxism, the new economic policy was ended. Secondly, the paper discusses the development of Lenin’s new economic policy in the preliminary exploration of economic construction in China. Mao Zedong fully referenced the related ideas of Lenin’s new economic policy, under the premise of grasping the basic national condition of the semi-colonial and semi-feudal society accurately, analyzed that the state economy, cooperative economy, individual economy, private capitalism and state capitalism were existed in the New Democratic Society. After the socialist transformation was completed, in order to solve the legacy of three big transformations, Mao Zedong put forward his "new economic policy". These policies mainly include allowing hiring labor, opening private factory, developing the Foreign economic, and so on. These ideas for the primary stage of socialism in our country provide important foundation for the establishment and improvement of economic theory. In the end, the paper researches the enlightenment of Lenin’s new economic policy to develop the socialist market economy with Chinese characteristics. Deng Xiaoping Scientifically analyzed that our country is in the early stage of socialism, and pointed out that socialism countries can practice market economy, the plan and market should be combined, and the relationship between market forces and macroeconomic regulation and control also should be correctly handled. These are the inheritance and development of Lenin’s new economic policy. At the same time, they also have the important implications for the development of market economy in today’s China. Therefore, to develop and improve the Chinese characteristic socialist market economy, we must seek truth from facts, base on our country’s basic national conditions, balance urban and rural development, balance the interests of workers and peasants, and make full use of the achievement of capitalism to achieve the ultimate goal of common prosperity for socialism.