faced with economic collapse and widespread peasant revolt, in the spring of 1921 the soviet government changed course towards a return to market-based relations between the state and the peasantry with the adoption of the new economic policy (nep). no more would forced requisitioning be the order of the day, but rather the adoption of a regularized "tax-in-kind." part and parcel of nep would be a return to a functional currency and monetary payment of wages rather than compensation of workers through rations and free services, as was the case under war communism. house rents, previously free, were charged by the state and social services were placed on a self-funding basis akin to insurance.