How Did Stalin Affect The Union
As mentioned in the opening paragraph Stalin’s reputation is often stained with false information from western propagandists and his enemies within the party. As such, his impact on the Union is often blotted out, so what are his achievements exactly?
Stalin implanted a successful system of collectivization in the agricultural which lead to the modernization of the sector. Collectivization is a policy in which instead of many small farms run by rich peasants, they are collectivised into huge farms run by the state. Other people will say that Stalin’s policies were not successful at all and lead to crippling famines, some of which was man made in order to suppress the population. These people will also claim that in Ukraine the peasants refused …show more content…
[4] It is, however, true that some peasants did revolt against the government. These people were most a class of richer peasants called “Kulaks”, these peasants are petty capitalists who own a piece of land, and they hired poorer peasants to work on the land. In order to make a profit they paid the workers less than their worth in addition, this wasn’t a very efficient system and gave power to greedy capitalists. Collectivization is bad for the kulaks since it took away their workers and land, therefore taking their power away. Obviously, they resisted the state and hoarded grain to sell it at higher costs, many kulaks attempted to sabotage the efforts of the state by burning crops and slaughtering livestock. [6] Foreseeing their resistance to the state, Stalin ordered for …show more content…
These plans rapidly industrialised Russia allowing it to thrive in the ashes of world wars, a civil war and a huge economic recession. What is unique about Russia’s modernization is how quick they could do it, being able to produce 15 million tons of pig iron in 1938 were a decade before there wasn’t an iron industry in Russia at all. To compare in 1938 Great Britain produced 7 million tons of pig iron.[4] In addition to Iron, coal production was multiplied by 10, steel output by 18; engineering and metal industries by 150; total national income by 10; industrial output by 24; annual capital investment by 57. During the First Five-year Plan, 51 billion rubles were invested; during the Second, 114; and during the Third, 192. The USSR made great leaps in other industries under Stalin as well in all sectors of their economy. From the book “Soviet Politics, Mr.Shuman says the following “ Between 1913 and 1940, oil production increased from nine to 35 million tons; machine tools from 1000 to 48,000 units, tractors from 0 to over 500,000; harvester combines from 0 to 153,500; electrical power output from two billion kWh to 50 billion; and the value of industrial output from 11 billion rubles to more than 100 billion by 1938. If the estimated volume of total industrial production in 1913 be taken as 100, the corresponding indices for 1938 are 93.2
Stalin implanted a successful system of collectivization in the agricultural which lead to the modernization of the sector. Collectivization is a policy in which instead of many small farms run by rich peasants, they are collectivised into huge farms run by the state. Other people will say that Stalin’s policies were not successful at all and lead to crippling famines, some of which was man made in order to suppress the population. These people will also claim that in Ukraine the peasants refused …show more content…
[4] It is, however, true that some peasants did revolt against the government. These people were most a class of richer peasants called “Kulaks”, these peasants are petty capitalists who own a piece of land, and they hired poorer peasants to work on the land. In order to make a profit they paid the workers less than their worth in addition, this wasn’t a very efficient system and gave power to greedy capitalists. Collectivization is bad for the kulaks since it took away their workers and land, therefore taking their power away. Obviously, they resisted the state and hoarded grain to sell it at higher costs, many kulaks attempted to sabotage the efforts of the state by burning crops and slaughtering livestock. [6] Foreseeing their resistance to the state, Stalin ordered for …show more content…
These plans rapidly industrialised Russia allowing it to thrive in the ashes of world wars, a civil war and a huge economic recession. What is unique about Russia’s modernization is how quick they could do it, being able to produce 15 million tons of pig iron in 1938 were a decade before there wasn’t an iron industry in Russia at all. To compare in 1938 Great Britain produced 7 million tons of pig iron.[4] In addition to Iron, coal production was multiplied by 10, steel output by 18; engineering and metal industries by 150; total national income by 10; industrial output by 24; annual capital investment by 57. During the First Five-year Plan, 51 billion rubles were invested; during the Second, 114; and during the Third, 192. The USSR made great leaps in other industries under Stalin as well in all sectors of their economy. From the book “Soviet Politics, Mr.Shuman says the following “ Between 1913 and 1940, oil production increased from nine to 35 million tons; machine tools from 1000 to 48,000 units, tractors from 0 to over 500,000; harvester combines from 0 to 153,500; electrical power output from two billion kWh to 50 billion; and the value of industrial output from 11 billion rubles to more than 100 billion by 1938. If the estimated volume of total industrial production in 1913 be taken as 100, the corresponding indices for 1938 are 93.2