> Deng's reforms were not really anything particularly new: Lenin was forced to accept the same realisation that a return to at least a limited market economy w

> Deng's reforms were not really anything particularly new: Lenin was forced to accept the same realisation that a return to at least a limited market economy was necessary with New Economic Policy in 1921, after the strict collectivisation during the Russian civil war had harmed the economy substantially. Indeed Deng's reforms were influenced by the NEP, according to Pantsov and Levine in Deng Xiaoping: A Revolutionary Life: > It will be recalled that Deng Xiaoping himself had studied Marxism from the works of the Bolshevik leaders who had propounded NEP. He drew on ideas from NEP when he spoke of his own reforms. In 1985, he openly acknowledged that 'perhaps' the most correct model of socialism was the New Economic Policy of the USSR.