Socialism in One Country Gosplan- oversaw the program of industrialization, setting production goals. Electricity, power plants, iron, steel industry
Poor working conditions
Propaganda
Success of the Five Year Plans Soviet industrial production grew 400% between Migration of hundreds of thousands to industrial cities. Human toll.
Collectivization High grain production, nothing to buy. Take over peasant farms into one collective state- owned farm.
Kulaks Prosperous peasant farmers, Stalin blamed for food shortages. Stalin attempted to eliminate this class.
Resistance to collectivization Prison camps, executions Tens of millions killed
Migration to major cities 12,000,000 left the countryside, mostly young men.
Poor housing, no consumer goods, rise of the black market
Foreign responses “A New Civilization”- Fabian Socialists “ I have seen the future and its works”- American writer Lincoln Steffens
Great Purges Took place after the assassination of the Politboro member Sergei Kirov Stalin used as an excuse to round up any dissenters, exile them, or kill them. Millions of Russians killed.