Stalin's economic policies

Question 1

in policies the five year plans

Answer 1

between 1928 and 1941, stalin launched series of five year plans
aims:
-industrialise Russian economy
-catch up on the world stage, stalin argued that Soviet Union was 100 years behind economic capacities behind western states
-five year plans also attended to eliminate shortcoming of NEP
-five year plans were extremely ambitious, reflecting to stamp his own identity onto policy

-2/3 5yp were cut short
-first because of various problems and third because of German invasion

Question 1

the great turn

Answer 1

Stalin believed economic trajectory for the USSR ought to be through mass industrialisation
reasons:
-Stalin knew USSR, after WW1 and civil war was weak and underdeveloped
-wanted to become less dependent of goods from Western capitalist states
-there were ideological reasons: believed socialist state would only exist through industrialisation
-wanted to show he was a capable leader

Question 2

in policies collectivisation

Answer 2

-process by which agricultural industries managed and taken over by the state
e.g. farms would be combined and ownership of resources taken over by the state
-took place between 1928-1941

why:
-served an ideoligical purpose, communists wanted to abolish private property
-hoped it would promote socialist ideas to gain broad support
-NEP also had negative effects on agricultural sector, thus collectivisation was an alternative

-slow process, introduced in phases, starting in 1928