Stalin Changes (Incomplete)

Joseph Stalin is one of the most talked leaders in world history. Between 1928 and 1941 he transformed Russia to a dominate European power. Stalin was the head of Russia Bolshevik party. He was dictator of the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death . He used brute and excessive force to industrialize the Soviet Union in the 1930s, killing millions of peasants and sending doubters of his methods to mental asylums. Good or bad no man Russia during this era than Joseph Stalin did. As political, economic, and social leader, Joseph Stalin has emotionally, physically, psychologically, politically, economically, and socially affected Russia even to this day.

Once Stalin gained power in Russian in !928 he sought out to industrialize Russia tremendously. Stalin said that Russia suffered economic backwardness (doc1). He proposed a five year plans were primarily focused on improving the production industry and improving transportation. When his Five-year plan was announced in 1929 , many industries ,such as oil and steel industries, were targets of quick industrialization (doc 2). Stalin’s plan set high goals To achieve this goal he developed the system of a command economy. Under Stalin, the government owned all businesses and made all basic economic decisions. The government pushed workers and managers to abide to the high production goals of the plan. Those who failed to abide were punished. Under these new laws productions of coal and steel increased tremendously, which are the most important products in factories. Between the years of 1928 and 1939,large factories, new railroads, hydroelectric power stations were built.

Stalin also strived to bring government agriculture under the control of the government control. Stalin forced peasants to give up their private lands and live on state owned farms and live on farms owned by the state or collectives (doc 4). Peasants could keep their homes and