Description
This book explores the history of personal internal trade in the united states right through the NEP of the 1920s. Non-public traders operated in a politically hostile but economically promising environment. Their contribution to post-war reconstruction was once a the most important one. An exhaustive portrayal of the markets and dimensions of personal trade is contrasted with the felt anxieties of Bolsheviks relating to traders’ destabilising intentions and talents. Retrospectively, many of those apprehensions were out of place.