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The Round Table “NEP - Results and Prospects of Study” discussion was held on September 17, 2021, during the All-Russian Scientific Conference “Russian Economic Reforms in the Regional Dimension”. Its speakers raised the issue of the NEP prospects besides the historiography problems. V. Rynkov pointed out that the myth about NEP as the “golden age” of Russian economy was created in the late 1980s - early 1990s. Further research of the problem led to the myth deconstruction. NEP was accompanied by a series of crises, and reconstruction processes in a number of regions and industries were not completed. V. Il’inykh concluded that NEP had not created effective mechanisms to overcome rural poverty. Modernization of the country was impossible based on the small-scale peasant economy. V. Kondrashin did not rule out that agriculture could continue developing successfully on the peasant economy basis, had the state support not been curtailed. L. Borodkin supposed that problems of developing the agrarian sector were related to state policy that hindered the agricultural development. Its liberalization, continuation of NEP could lead to sustainable and dynamic development. V. Klistorin pointed out that the decision to wind up NEP, since in 1925, had a political character and was not directly related to economy. I. Poberezhnikov emphasized that NEP was a forced compromise by the Bolshevik government, which had to be curtailed at the end. G. Kornilov and A. Kilin defined NEP as a complex of social and economic reforms, which were carried out in the form of an experiment. V. Zinovyev believed that China and other countries used the NEP experience. A. Nikolaev called on researchers to study NEP in frameworks of longer economic cycles. As the discussion outcome, it has been concluded that it is premature to sum up NEP study results, and its historiography is at the next stage of thematic and methodological bifurcation.