Essay On The 1930s The Age Of Dictatorship

The 1930s: The Age of Dictatorship The subject from this week’s class that I enjoyed to thinking about was the planned economy developed during the First Five Year plan. Trying to plan what exactly what everyone needs and when they need it seems like a good idea but, impossible to actually get done. It is almost like a mad science type of idea. While it would be efficient with no over spending, it provides no variety. Everyone being the same and having access to the same materials would further the idea of equality in the communist system. The concept is admirable but, it would be impossible for any government to plan. The Soviet Union thought this was possible and many of the people in the country believed it. The Soviet Union would provide predictions on percentages of improvement that got down to the decimal point. This would make it seem that they were so smart they could make predictions that were so precise. Even with percents that accurate I find it hard to imagine that people could believe that a planned economy could work. My first thought would be how could they know what each individual needs,

It wasn’t until after Stalin’s death that his cult of personality was able to be criticized. The first person to publicly do so was Nikita Khrushchev in his so called “secret speech” that people around the world were able to read. The public was finally able to express their feeling of hatred for Stalin without the fear of persecution. This began the period of “de-Stalinization.” In his “secret speech,” Khrushchev accused Stalin of unjustly killing communist, miscalculating Hitler, and allowing himself to be worshiped like a God. Khrushchev allowed the Gulag inmates to be released, all public praise of Stalin was stopped and Stalin could be criticized in the literature. Stalin was blamed for all the hardships of the Soviet Union and for undermining