To the 100th anniversary of the practice of renting state enterprises by private business

The article analyzes the historical experience of leasing state enterprises by private business during the during the New Economic Policy period in 1921-1927. The global economic crisis that began in 2020 and the threat of mass unemployment require the immediate creation in the Russian Federation of a concentrated basis of the national economy based on the use of manual labor. For this, it is proposed to establish a national project to create several tens of thousands of small factories and artels of manual labor for the production of simple things. This can stimulate the development of commodity production and solve a whole range of acute social problems.