Stalin Assesment

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a) What were the five year plans? (4 marks)

The five year plans were a set of plans which were drawn up between by the GOSPLAN who were a state planning agency. They set ambitious targets for production in vital heavy industries (coal, iron, oil, electricity). The plans were very complex but by 1929 everyone knew what they had to achieve.  Stalin wanted to use the five year plans to achieve his goal of industrialising Russia and also he wanted to do this quickly. Also Stalin wanted industrialisation to improve Russia’s agriculture. Stalin had wanted to prove the point that Communism did work. He also used the Five Year Plans to gain personal control of Russia’s industry.

b) Explain why Stalin introduced collectivisation? (6 marks)

The idea of collectivization was that small farms would be gathered together to form one large massive one.Stalin introduced collectivisation for many different reasons. One of the main reasons and feed its population. Although the kulaks fairly wealthy many other hard working peasants were not producing enough food to feed the entire population of Russia. Stalin knew that he had to feed his workers to keep them content.

Also, to make sure the people of Russia were content Stalin wanted to get rid of the kulaks and make all the peasants equal and to prove that communism really did work in practice. Collectivization helped him achieve his idea of making sure that the peasants all were equal even though at first many of the peasants resented the idea.

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Another reason was because Stalin wanted to raise money for machinery by selling or trading surplus food abroad. By trading Russia’s extra food he would be able to acquire new machinery and technology to help industrialize Russia.

With new machinery and technology Stalin hoped to abolish all the little farms which had been under the NEP (the New Economic Policy) as they were very efficient. Stalin had hated the NEP as it was not working and mainly because it was a capitalist system and Stalin hate capitalism.

Collectivisation was also introduced because Stalin had been ...

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