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From Agriculture to Industry: The Soviet Union between 1929 and 1940 Name: Tim Goudsmid Course: SSC 112 Date: 11-11-2005 Words: 2794 From Agriculture to Industry:
of the Socialists now, and immediately began to change agriculture and industry. He believed that the Soviet Union was one hundred years behind the West and had to
who discarded with his program called "Collective Agriculture" Under Stalin's commands; the Soviet Union operated a worldwide network of communist parties. By the
in Russia III.History of the Soviet Union A.The Early Years B.Stalin's Reformation C.World War II D.The Soviet Union's Postbellum Period E.The Cold War IV.The Fall
the 1940s. The economic policy Stalin used and which continued to be used until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1992 was the method of five year plans. These
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Name: Tim Goudsmid
Course: SSC 112
Date: 11-11-2005
Words: 2794
From Agriculture to Industry: The Soviet Union between 1929 and 1940
"We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they crush us." Josef Stalin, 1931
Introduction
For a large part of the Russian population, the Communist Revolution did not start until 1929. This was the year in which the collectivization of agriculture began and the year in which the Soviet industrialization process started to accelerate rapidly. The ensuing period led to a lot of death and social suffering, but also to extensive industrial growth. It transformed the Soviet Union from backward agricultural society into a superpower.
During the 1920's the Soviet leaders began to fear that another World War might break out. They knew that the Soviet Union could not compete with western countries, if the industrialization would fail. The future existence of the Soviet Union depended solely on its ability to industrialize. This is why in 1928 Stalin announced what is perhaps the most ambitious and costly plan for industrialization ever created by man.
The outcome of the Second World War and the position the Soviet Union had afterwards show that the Soviet Union had become a competing and industrialized nation. This stands in sharp contrast with the achievements of Russia under Tsarist rule and the industrialization during the New Economic Policy. While both of these periods generated substantial economic growth, a real industrial revolution did not take of until the introduction of Stalinist policy in 1928. This leads to the question why Stalinist policies were an economical success. In order to study why Stalinist policies were successful, it is necessary to first take the previous failure to industrialize into account. The most radical and effective changes made by...
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