Stalin's economic reasoning

the main aim of Stalin's policies was to industrialise and modernised the USSR as quickly as possible. he wanted backwards Russia to be the 'Soviet America'. the Russians would beat the capitalists at their own game and became a force in the world to be reckoned with. Stalin had a number of reasons- practical and ideological- for wanting to force the pace.

to increase military strength- Stalin knew that a country that was not well industrialised was a weak country. to fight a modern war, a country had to have a well-developed industrial base to manufacture the huge quantities of weapons and munitions that would be required. there was a war scare in the late 1920s, and during the 30s Stalin became increasingly convinced that the USSR would be…