Collectivisation & Industrialisation Be Described As A

"We are 50 or 100 years behind the advanced countries. We must make good of this distance in ten

years. Either wee do it, or they crush us".

In 1931 Stalin made this statement at the Communist party conference, ten years later the USSR was

embroiled in World War Two fighting to preserve the communist state they had built. Stalin had the

insight to determine the problems in the Soviet economy, now all he had to do was deal with them.

The answer was found in Collectivisation and Industrialisation. Stalin's Five Year Plan's (FYP) were

designed to transform the USSR into a superpower through rapid Industrialisation. The main aim of

the economic policy was to modernise in order to overt the threat that the "advanced countries" posed

to the USSR. However there were other secondary aims such as to increase the number of workers in

the cities, break the back's of the peasantry and to return to revolutionary theory. Neither

Collectivisation or Industrialisation were Stalin's ideas. They were the policies advocated by the

leftist wing of the Communist party (of which Trotsky was the

form of slaughtering livestock. Indeed by 1935, the peasants had virtually killed off the horse in

this action came from a Lenin quote in which he called Kulaks "bloodsuckers, vampires and robbers

especially by force". However I disagree with this interpretation and since it is my interpretation and

of the people". This was, in no short form, a propaganda exercise. The other aim was to break the

Surplus grain would be sold abroad to raise investment funds for industry while surplus peasants

prophetic these words were. Ten years later the USSR army were fighting off the German attack that

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