Why did Stalin make the great turn
- Created by: Mubanga Kauseni
- Created on: 04-06-19 16:10
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- Reasons for the great turn
- Economic
- Peasants weren't producing enough grain
- in 1913, grain exports were 12m tonnes but under the NEP it never exceeded 3m. So USSR couldn't fund industrial tech
- Peasants weren't selling grain because they lacked the right machinery. They worked for themselves and their relationship with the Gov was bad
- Lack of incentive. There were no goods for them to buy so why sell
- in 1927, procurement was down 25%
- Slow industrial growth
- The NEP saved the economy but couldn't provide for the frame work for large scale industrialisation (Davies)
- War scare in 1920s which made Stalin convinced that the USSR would be attacked so industrial growth was neccessary
- Peasants weren't producing enough grain
- Ideological
- NEP was not socialism and was producing a hierarchy. (NEPmen and Kulaks)
- Nep was only for recovery, it encouraged private trade and markets and Kulaks became an obstacle
- Political
- The grain crisis in 1927 meant that Stalin could use Bukharin's support for the NEP against him
- Stalin had to prove that he was an equal successor of Lenin through the economic transformation of the USSR
- Economic
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