Garima Dalal
Year 13
Stalin’s Russia
Stalin means “Man of Steel” in Russian. Joseph Stalin was an enthusiastic defender of Lenin; he led many Marxist movements in Georgia and joined the Bolsheviks. His two main aims were: a command economy and a totalitarian system of government.
Two of Stalin’s aims were to modernize Russia so that it could make up the 50 year gap in 10 years and to change the majority of the primary sector to secondary, make up the country’s industry. Stalin was afraid that the surrounding capitalist governments like the ones of Finland, Poland and Romania might attack Russia and that Russia might have nothing to defend itself with. That’s why he felt that there was an urgent need to build up the country’s supplies. According to Stalin, there had to be more workers working in the factories than in the farms so industrialization can take place quicker, however he also realized that there had to be plenty of food production to feed the workforce.