Successes of Stalin's Dictatorship
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- Created on: 11-06-17 19:39
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- Did Stalin make the USSR an economic power?
- Economy before 1929
- USSR still very backward, Stalin determined to modernise it
- Stalin thought Russia's backwardness was why she was easily beaten and took a long time to recover from wars
- Stalin ended NEP, replaced it with 5 Year Plans
- Most people, esp. Kulaks, happy with the NEP, it was very successful
- Collectivisation
- In 1929, farming was ineffective. Lots of small farms = not enough food
- 1929 - Kolkhoz introduced. Collectivised farms
- Kulaks hated them. Burned cattle & crops rather than hand them over. They were then shot or sent to Gulags
- Peasants hated Kulaks - Stalin presented them as the enemy - greedy capitalists
- Complete by 1937. Less grain production, more starvation
- Requisition parties - used violence to collect grain, left people to starve
- Peasants didn't trust govt. Wanted to feed themselves, not the rest of the country
- 5 Year Plans - Events
- Created for security, to carry out socialism in one country, and to show off success to others
- 1928-1932 Built up new cities, more HEP to power industry
- 1933-1937 more mining. Transport and comms. improved by machinery
- 1938-1939 Interrupted by WW2, all factories produced arms
- Electricity x 7 Coal x 3.5 Oil x 2.5 Pig Iron x 4 Steel x 4.5 From 1927-37
- 5 Year Plans - Consequences
- Main aim achieved - by 1940, the USSR was a huge industrial power
- Huge towns & cities built in central USSR to protect them
- Better infrastructure free education & health, more electricity, better living standards
- No consumer goods, no safety standards, many workers in labour camps
- Workers wanted to be Stakhanovites - named after a hard working miner
- Foreign technicians brought in, invested in education + worker training
- Economy before 1929
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