Was Stalin's Transformation of Russia Successful?
Was Stalin's transformation of Russia successful? That depends on your definition of success. If success is nothing more than to carry out and prosper with what you intended to do, than I believe that his transformation of Russia was indeed a success. But success also accounts for continuing prosperity, and how the success is achieved. While Stalin's plans may have been more successful than Lenin's Russia or the Tsar's Russia, the mass amounts of death and the eventual fall of Russia, causes me to say that Stalin's transformation was not a success. Stalin's economic policies had moderate, short-term success, his reign seemed more autocratic than Marxist, and social affairs in Russia were repressed. Under these three points I intend to prove that Stalin's transformation of Russia was a failure. The focus of Stalin's economy was on rapid industrialisation. Russian industry, at the time, was behind in coal and steel produce to non-industrial countries such as France and were a long way behind the major industrial powers of Britain, Germany and the USA. The heavy workload on miners and factory workers and later, the collectivisation policy on agriculture, caused suffering for most of the population. Workers had to face accus
Politics had been similarly effected by major change. The strength of communism in his government, is however, questionable given that Stalin's reign seemed more autocratic than Marxist. This view is quite valid given all the evidence that supports this claim. He was, after all, a man who could take absolutely no criticism and as a result, was responsible for the long period of terror, otherwise known as 'The Purges'. It all began with the assassination of Sergey Kirov, on December 1 1934 by the assassin Leonid Nikolaev. The reason behind the assassination was that Kirov had popular support from the people who wanted a replacement for Stalin. Opposition was strong following his mediocre success with his economic reforms. While he still had a group of so-called, 'Loyal Stalinists' who shared in Stalin's belief of terror against the peasantry, there was increasing opposition and criticism from the men who once supported Stalin in his rise to power. The assassination of Kirov was only the first of many purges which would see millions dead and many of the original Bolsheviks arrested, humiliated in show trials and executed behind closed doors. His purge also targeted many highly ranked military officials, who as a result, were not there to lead Russia in the Second World War. This of course, had a disastrous effect on Russia's performance. Stalin in doing so created greater problems for his country. Stalin's foreign policy (mainly economic goals) had disastro
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