"Why did industrialisation depend on agriculture in the USSR?"

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  1. “Why did industrialisation depend on agriculture in the USSR?”

Industrialisation in the USSR relied on agriculture through the trade economy factor. To industrialise a country as huge as Russia vast financial resources needed to be utilised however Russia did not have the ready cash to cope with the demands. The middle classes had collapsed so borrowing money from them was not an option, borrowing money from abroad would be too controversial, many of the countries disliked and distrusted the advancing communist regime. Russia also had neither the technological capabilities within the factories to produce goods for the international market, also the goods Russia could produce were far below the standard of the western powers. The only trade-able and ready product was grain. Russia had a majority population of peasants,  so the people producing a surplus creates a marketable commodity. In conclusion grain was the only thing Russia, which had been financially and technologically crippled by the wars, was able to produce quickly and in vast enough quantities to sell.

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