The famine problem as an important component of scientific and historical comprehension of the "New Economic Policy", or the retro style review of the book by Polyakov Yu. A. Transition to the New Economic Policy and the soviet peasantry / Yu. A. Polyakov. - M. : Nauka, 1967. - 512 p.
The paper deals with the so called "New Economic Policy" which was the main cause of the first Soviet famine in the 1920s by means of a review of the book published more than forty years ago.