Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Stalin& industrialisation
- Consequences
- Industrial
output
increased
between 1929
& 1941.
- USSR
transformed
into a
modern
industrial
state. Now a
superpower.
Russian GDP
doubled
between
1929 and
1941
- USSR became became
better able to exploit
its natural resources
and was spared the
worst effects of the
Depression of the
1930s
- Heavy industry
expanded &
URBAN
POPULATION
DOUBLED
- Workers conditions &
wages failed to improve
by 1941 despite the
claims made by Stalinist
Propaganda.
- Positive consequences for party & state.
Negative consequences for
people(peasants & proletariat).
- USSR now able
to withstand a
Nazi attack
- Aims
- Had political connotations.
Survival of the revolution.
Needed the proletariat to
increase in size whilst the
peasantry reduced.
- Economic- needed to feed &
supply the workers. NEP had
failed- failure of grain
harvest in 1927/28
- Military- fear of
invasion. War scare
in 1927- massacre of
Chinese
communists/
assassination of
Soviet ambassador
to Poland. Needed a
stronger industrial
base to survive a
future attack from
capitalist powers.
- Modernise the nation.
USSR 50 to 100 yrs
behind the rest of the
world. Industrialisation
viewed as central to the
survival of the USSR.
- Removal of
capitalists who had
thrived under the
NEP. Liquidation of
NEPmen and Kulaks
- Personal- to
strengthen his
position in the
party by removal
of rightists who
supported NEP.
- Features
- GOSPLAN- state
planning agency- set
up to create &
manage targets.