From Agriculture To Industry: The Soviet Union Between 1929 And 1940
Name: Tim Goudsmid
Course: SSC 112
Date: 11-11-2005
Words: 2794
From Agriculture to Industry: The Soviet Union between 1929 and 1940
"We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they crush us." Josef Stalin, 1931
Introduction
For a large part of the Russian population, the Communist Revolution did not start until 1929. This was the year in which the collectivization of agriculture began and the year in which the Soviet industrialization process started to accelerate rapidly. The ensuing period led to a lot of death and social suffering, but also to extensive industrial growth. It transformed the Soviet Union from backward agricultural society into a superpower.
During the 1920's the Soviet leaders began to fear that another World War might break out. They knew that the Soviet Union could not compete with western countries, if the industrialization would fail. The future existence......
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