thirty years. He first entered politics in February 1912 when he was appointed to serve on

the first Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party. When he started, Stalin wanted to

overthrow the monarch and divide the large feudal estates into small, private capitalistic

peasant holdings but as time progressed and as Stalin moved up the political ladder,

Russia began to take its communist shape. Joseph Stalin had turned the Soviet Union

into a great superpower but all this had come with a price, a price which was placed on

After the death of Lenin. Stalin began to change agriculture and industry. He

believed that the Soviet Union was behind everyone else and to correct this he introduced

"command economy" or the Five Year Plan, which forced farmers and industry to

modernize. More tractors were built and power stations were developed to supply farms

with electricity. Production of coal, steel and iron were increased and Stalin also had

plans for firms and businesses. "Business and factories were given a target that they had

to push forward socialism in one country ". (Kreis, 1998) By setting up a crash

Many of Stalin's accomplishments did not happen magically and came with a

great improvements in industry, agriculture, and society."(Kreis, 1998) Literacy was

for ten years or more with little food. Many died because of exhaustion at the labor

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