... disagreed with this saying that the New Economic Policy was necessary for establishing a socialist state through the protocol that Karl Marx called for. There had to be the intermediate capitalist stage. Stalin sided with the Rightists against this view of the Leftists. He gained immense popularity because Lenin had just died and his popularity still lingered within public hearts and Lenin ... Rightist sect by going against the New Economic Policy. He blamed the Rightists for supporting the New Economic Policy and causing the economic havoc in the country, criticizing the very foundatio...

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