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What were the methods Stalin used to industrialize? Were they acceptable methods? Which methods were worthy of a hero? Which are those that only a villain would use? |
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The key to industrialization was heavy industry and the pace of its production was to be achieved through a series of Five Year Plans. Every five years the Soviet government under Stalin's instruction would set targets that industry and agriculture would have to meet. New factories were built, especially in places in east of the USSR such as the Ural mountains. A famous example was Magnitogorsk. Other achievements were the Dnieper dam that provided hydro-electricity. Whole new industrial centers sprung up in Kuzbass and the Volga. |
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The Rapid industrialization meant peasants leaving the land and working in towns or industrial centers. These workers had to be fed, so agricultural production also had to increase. Stalin ordered the collectivization of all farming. Peasants would work together on larger, more productive farms. Almost all the crops they produced would be given to the government to feed the industrial workers. Fewer workers were needed on these collective farms, so more peasants could become factory workers. Every year the amount of steel, coal, iron, railway lines and oil rose. Capitalist countries admired these achievements. However, there was a darker side to these successes. In the drive to industrialize Stalin often adopted harsh methods; forced labor camps, removal of those who did not co-operate and punishments for those who failed to reach targets. |
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