 In 1921, the New Economic Policy restored some private enterprise to animate the Russian economy.As part of Lenin's pragmatic compromise with external financial interests in 1918, Bolshevik state capitalism temporarily returned 91% of industry to private ownership or trusts until the Soviet Russians learned the technology and the techniques required to operate and administrate industries.Importantly, Lenin declared that the development of socialism would not be able to be pursued in the manner originally thought by Marxists.