| 释义 |
E.P., NEP, Nep4|nɛp|
[f. the initial letters of New Economic Policy.]
A programme initiated in the Soviet Union in 1921 for the revival of the wage system and private ownership in industry. Hence ˈnepman, NEP-man, one engaged in this programme.
[1922Communist Rev. June 107/2 The basic task of ‘Nepa’ (New Economic Policy),..is to establish a close connection between the socialist economy..and the economy of the peasant masses.] 1924Glasgow Herald 2 Jan. 7 The wholesale arrest of thousands of persons, including many ‘Nepmen’ supporters of the new economic policy. 192719th Cent. Nov. 655 In 1921 the economic catastrophe threatened to bury under its ruins even the Soviet Government. It was then that Lenin proclaimed the New Economic Policy or ‘N.E.P.’ This ‘Nep’ was nothing else than a whole series of concessions to life—it was the victory of life over the deadly system inaugurated by the Soviet Government. 1929Daily Tel. 22 Jan. 10/7 The Nep..is continually reasserting itself, in spite of the persecution and restrictions under which the Nepmen suffer. 1949E. Pound Pisan Cantos lxxiv. 25 But in Russia they bungled and did not apparently Grasp the idea of work-certificate And started the N.E.P. with disaster And the immolation of men to machinery. 1951Koestler Age of Longing vi. 98 There were rich and poor again; though the rich were now called NEP-men. 1961C. Cockburn View from West ix. 127 The British upper middle classes..richer and happier than ever—the great NEP-men of the 1950s. 1971W. H. McNeill in A. Bullock 20th Cent. 48/1 Extreme economic disruption even compelled Lenin to abandon Communist principles to the extent of allowing limited private trading (NEP or New Economic Policy, 1921). 1973Times Lit. Suppl. 3 Aug. 910/3 The wickedness, real or alleged, of Nepmen became a favourite theme of official propaganda. |