From 1928, when the plan started, to 1932 to its end, many factories, dams, power stations and even cities were being built. Despite there being harsh penalties implemented to workers for failure to meet their targets, there was still a significant increase in Russia’s industrial growth in a very short period of time. Just like the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, under Tsar Alexander II, in protest of Stalin’s policies, the peasants, in protest, refused to work harder than they needed too, causing them to destroy livestock and crops, which eventually lead to their unnecessary death. Stalin, just like the Tsarist autocratic regime, was not committed to collectivism but preferred capitalism in his ruling of the Soviet Union. This caused a lot of rebellion from the Kulaks who opposed collectivism.
According to Doc. 4, the USSR produced 35.4 million tons of coal, 11.7 million tons of oil, 3.3 million tons of iron, and 4 million tons of steel in 1927. With Stalin in office, these numbers increased greatly in 1932. According to the Background Doc., “Stalin implemented collectivization which combined all of the agricultural farms into large state-owned farms and forced the peasants to work on them,
This is because Stalin’s rule was oppressive and led to millions of deaths for soviet citizens, and much of it through his own cruel methods. One of the first things he did was to put his communist ideas into place. He developed the collectivization policy which took small peasant farms to form large collective farms. (Document 3) In doing this, Stalin brought all of the farms under the operation of the state, upsetting the kulaks who were the wealth farmers.
Steel production and the electricity generation increased. Another focus for Stalin was on agriculture. His plan was to use collective farming to produce more food by less people. The people working these farms objected the idea and often destroyed their crops and livestock rather than giving it to the government. Stalin’s response to this was to take the food by force and kill any protesters.
The Five-Year Plans were a series of goals which each took five years to complete, that were aimed at quickly improving the economy and industrialisation of the USSR so that it could compete with Western Capitalist countries. According to Stalin in a speech on 7 January 1933, the first Five Year Plan was a great success in terms of its outputs, and furthermore because the working class was able to complete the first Plan ahead of schedule in only four years16(Source B).The Plan was successful in creating an iron and steel industry, a tractor industry, a machine-tool industry, a chemical industry, an agricultural machinery industry and an aircraft industry16(Source B). In addition, the USSR now ranked among the first for electricity, oil products and coal outputs in the world16(Source B).In another speech delivered by Stalin in April 1928, Stalin discusses the modernisation of agriculture and puts forward his idea of Collectivization to increase agricultural outputs for the USSR17(Source C). Stalin knew that agricultural production and development was very slow, and was thus negatively affecting the country’s economy17(Source C). Stalin blamed this slow development on the fact that the USSR still had an “insecure” and “primitive” system of economy because of
An authoritarian dictator is a person in power who has total control of the citizens of a country. My dictators are Joseph Stalin and Mao zedong. Stalin ruled Russia and Mao ruled china. Mao's political party was the Chinese communist party. Stalin's political party was the communist party of the soviet union.
By the late 1920s to early 1930s, he began seizing land that had been given earlier to peasants and started to organize farms. Stalin was under the impression that collective farming would increase the production of food, but the people resented being forced to work for the state. In 1929, Stalin introduced a policy aimed toward these farmers who resisted turning their land over to the Soviet state. A year later, the policy was legalized by the Soviet Central Committee.
Stalin obtained a significant focus on heavy industry, for he knew it would only bring benefits to those who follow him; however, his viewpoint of what could be accomplished opposed to what people in the USSR believed can be achievable. The first plan adopted by the party in 1928 “set goals that were unrealtic- a 250 percent increase in overall industrial development and a 330 percent expansion in heavy industry alone” (Document 1). People believed that the USSR was still in its developing stage; therefore, a demand in increasing industrial production by a large amount will not happen in a short period of time. Problems began to evolve due to the unrealistic demands Stalin put into place. Managers and company owners believed that the quote they had to achieve was unreasonable leading to conflict.
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In terms of agricultural output the government reported that it rose from 48% in 1928 to 70% in the final year of the five year plan (1932). This deep development in a short few years came at the cost of many citizens due to the creating of a rural famine from a sweeping government. The Soviet government challenged and later removed many general freedoms awarded to farmers under prior governments in favour of a strict communal farming style based entirely on reaching high state quotas. Although changes implemented by the new socialist government caused for rural famine and decrease of living quality they allowed for the Soviet Union to expand rapidly. Without the ruthless tactics and strict policies implemented by Stalin none of these changes would have been able to occur in the timely fashion they
This collectivization was the spark of some rebellions in Ukraine. These rebellions worried Stalin, he thought that he was going to lose Ukraine. This is why the Soviet Government then decided to target the Ukraine people, mainly farmers, villagers, and peasants, by starving them. The villagers, farmers, and peasants made up about 80
Stalin came into power in 1924 after the death of Lenin. He made plans for economic development within Russia through a series of five year plans for industry and agriculture. When Stalin took control of the Soviet Union, it was still a peasant dominated country and he believed that the USSR had to modernize and industrialize quickly, along with the agriculture. More productive farms would provide more labor; large commercial farms would be able to increase the production and provide the necessary food to feed the workers and Stalin wanted to raise capital by selling surplus food abroad. in 1929 Stalin introduced collectivization and the plan for it was that peasant farms would be joined on which they were allowed to keep a small plot for
Under the breadths of communism, Stalin reorganized the economy and changed labor prioritization. Executing a total of 3 individual 5-year plan installments, Stalin began to change the long ancient farmland based economy into an industrial superpower. These centralized economic plans were instated by a state planning committee that followed communistic economic principles. In this manner, the 5-year plans called for rapid industrialization through heavy industry. Joshua R. Keefe wrote for the Student Pulse: “ . . .
The command economy under Stalin is centralised with the success of each five-year plan. These goals are hence created to compel and urge each of the workers to comply to the economic goals set by the government. This allowed Stalin to control their lives and indoctrinate the working classes, additionally there is the presence of class warfare under Stalinism as throughout the 1930’s there was a major effort by the soviets to eliminate the kulaks of Russia(landowners) referred to as dekulakization and instead replace this with collectivisation, this was carried out by the OGPU police
Afterwards, he became dictator of the Soviet Union. He preferred an industrialization society, so he put out his population into industrialization.
