1. How Successful Was Stalins Industrialisation
Industrialisation was the primary goal of Lenin and Stalin, as well as many communist party members. ... The five-year plans presented an opportunity to Stalin to glorify him at the foundations of the communist party. ... It is true that the plans bought huge amounts of glory to Stalin as well as securing his ultimate power within the party, but this glory was justified by the revitalising effects of industrialisation on the soviet people and the communist party. Had the N.E.P been allowed to continue, it is my belief that the communist party would have collapsed in on itself as its ground lev...
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