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Impact of Stalin's rule - Coggle Diagram

- - - - More crops could be produced to supply cities and factories
      - Fewer farm workers were needed so they could work in cities as factory workers
      - Factories in cities would produce equipment for farming. Eg. Tractors
      - The five year plan sought to industrialise USSR
      - There was also the development of heavy industries like coal and steel
      - The five year plan was seen as a great success and USSR became a great industrial nation by 1930
    - - Quality of products were sub-standard as they tried to meet high target and there was little growth in consumer industries
      - The five year plan caused suffering to the people as they faced difficulties hitting the targets provided by the government
      - The people were overworked and suffered at their workplace due to poor working conditions
  - - - The government collected the grain it needed to feed the cities and export them to buy industrial equipment
      - Collectivisation allowed the soviet union to amass grains to be sold which raised capital to be reinvested into further industrialization
      - Small individual farms were merged into large collective farms as it was believed that larger units of land would be farmed more efficiently with machines like tractors
    - - Many peasants, especially kulaks, killed their own animals, burnt /hide their crops
      - Bad harvest led to the Great Famine of 1932 to 1933
        
        Deaths of millions
      - High quotas were difficult to meet and peasants could not sell food for their own profit
      - The government fixed working hrs, wages and targets for production