After becoming the complete leader of the USSR in 1929, Joseph Stalin put in place two economic policies: industrialization and collectivization. With industrialization, Stalin wanted to establish a war economy and prepare for war against its capitalist foes abroad through sets of Five-Year Plans. While collectivization was to create surplus food supplies that cold be sold abroad to raise capital for industry and decrease the number of rural workers and release workers for new factories. Seeing as how Stalin’s problem was that Soviet Russia wasn’t fully industrialized, and to move from an agrarian economy to an industrial one, his Five-Year Plans and collectivization helped him to a great extent in solving his problem, even though it was destructive
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By the late 1930s, many Soviet workers had improved their conditions by acquiring well-paid skilled jobs, unemployment was almost non-existent, although wages decreased, punishments severe, overcrowded, and deaths occurred. But again, this wasn’t Stalin’s concern. This lack of unemployment represents the amount of people who were involved in the production process and industries. Of how much the population had become industrial. To have an abundant amount of workers would greatly increase the effectiveness of production, and brought Stalin one step closer to his goal. And due to the workers and to the three Five-Year Plans, which just set ridiculously high targets for resources to be produced, coal production grew five-fold, steel six-fold, oil output doubled, and electricity generation quintupled. Although they didn’t meet their targets, this great development in industrialization signifies the the USSR was acceleratingly approaching modernization. It signifies great power and opportunities, thus making it a force to reckon with. And although industrialization wasn’t the only factor, it was crucial in surviving four years of German occupation and turning the table and driving the German army out in 1945. Steel isn’t the only thing attributable to that success, but sheer willpower as well. However, without the steel, they would have not had any chance to uprise and take …show more content…
Stalin didn’t concern himself with raising the standards of living, and some can argue that his economic policies were to consolidate his power. But in fact, it is due to those policies that Russia was able to survive and thrive. Stalin didn’t care about the people, but only Russia’s economy. He wanted it to be industrialized. Collectivization, although caused starvation and famine, worked in changing Russia from an agrarian economy. While industrialization closed the deal by exponentially increasing production in resources. These policies, to a great extent, aided Stalin in solving his problem which was the agricultural
By the late 1930s, many Soviet workers had improved their conditions by acquiring well-paid skilled jobs, unemployment was almost non-existent, although wages decreased, punishments severe, overcrowded, and deaths occurred. But again, this wasn’t Stalin’s concern. This lack of unemployment represents the amount of people who were involved in the production process and industries. Of how much the population had become industrial. To have an abundant amount of workers would greatly increase the effectiveness of production, and brought Stalin one step closer to his goal. And due to the workers and to the three Five-Year Plans, which just set ridiculously high targets for resources to be produced, coal production grew five-fold, steel six-fold, oil output doubled, and electricity generation quintupled. Although they didn’t meet their targets, this great development in industrialization signifies the the USSR was acceleratingly approaching modernization. It signifies great power and opportunities, thus making it a force to reckon with. And although industrialization wasn’t the only factor, it was crucial in surviving four years of German occupation and turning the table and driving the German army out in 1945. Steel isn’t the only thing attributable to that success, but sheer willpower as well. However, without the steel, they would have not had any chance to uprise and take …show more content…
Stalin didn’t concern himself with raising the standards of living, and some can argue that his economic policies were to consolidate his power. But in fact, it is due to those policies that Russia was able to survive and thrive. Stalin didn’t care about the people, but only Russia’s economy. He wanted it to be industrialized. Collectivization, although caused starvation and famine, worked in changing Russia from an agrarian economy. While industrialization closed the deal by exponentially increasing production in resources. These policies, to a great extent, aided Stalin in solving his problem which was the agricultural