
1) Soviet phraseology
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The NEPmen were businesspeople in the young Soviet Union who took advantage of the opportunities for private trade and small-scale manufacturing created by the New Economic Policy (NEP). The NEP was a response to revolts against meager rations in the USSR during the early 1920s under Lenin`s policy of War Communism. Vladimir Lenin responded by in....
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEPman

(in the Soviet Union) a person who engaged briefly in private enterprise during the New Economic Policy of the 1920's.
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https://www.infoplease.com/dictionary/nepman
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