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Stalin and the USSR's Domestic Policy 1 - Coggle Diagram
Stalin and the USSR's Domestic Policy 1
5 Year Plans
Staline believed that if the USSR were to survive it would need to transformed into a mordern industrial society
1st 5 Year Plan 1928-1933: focus on heavy industry and the development of the USSR's infrastructure, large scale works were completed in a small period of time such as the steelworks at Magnitogorsk
2nd 5 Year Plan 1933-1938: focuson consumer good and improving the lives of the people of the USSR
3rd 5 Year Plan 1938-1943: focussed on relocation Russia's industry to the Ural mountains in anticipation of Germany's planned invasion of the USSR
Stalin's goals
Make the USSR self-sufficient agriculturally and economically
'de-westernise' the Soviet Union and institute a pure socialist society
consolidate his own power and establish a totalitarian state
Collective Farms
Collectivised Farms were seen to produce more on a piece of land using less manpower, this would allow more people to work in the booming industrial sectors of the USSR
The establishment of Collective Farms was not welcomed in the USSR including the Kulaks
The Kulaks would burn and kill their produce instead of it being collected by the government, Stalin responded by deporting 6 million Kulaks to the Gulags in Siberia or executing them
Success of industrialisation
Stalins 5 year plans were successful as a whole
In 1929 there were 11 million industrial workers and by 1938 there were 38 million
By WW2, the USSR had the 2nd largest economy in the world and the USSR was able to relocate the majority of their industry in the wake of the German invasion
Between 1928-1935, the economy of the USSR grew by 250%
Success of collectivisation
Collectivisation allowed Stalin to change the USSR from a agricultural based society into a industrial one
In 1928, 2% of farms were collectivised, by 1940 100% were claimed to have been collectivised
20 million small farms were transformed into an estimated 250,000 collectivised farms