How did the soviet economy change under the direction of stalin?

Question

How did the soviet economy change under the direction of stalin?

Answer 1

At the end of the 1920s Stalin launched a wave of radical economic policies, which completely overhauled the industrial and agricultural face of the Soviet Union. This came to be known as the 'Great Turn' as Russia turned away from the near-capitalist New Economic Policy. The NEP had been implemented by Lenin in order to ensure the survival of the Communist state following seven years of war (1914-1921, WWI from 1914 to 1917, and the subsequent Civil War) and had rebuilt Soviet production to its 1913 levels. However, Russia still lagged far behind the West, and the NEP was felt by Stalin and the majority of the Communist party, not only to be compromising Communist ideals, but also not delivering sufficient economic performance, as well as not creating the envisaged Socialist society. It was therefore necessary to increase the pace of industrialisation in order to catch up with the West.

Some historians believe that "Stalinism was a success, having fulfilled its historical mission to force the rapid industrialization of an undeveloped country". However, Robert Conquest disputed such conclusion and noted that "Russia had already been fourth to fifth among industrial economies before World War I" and that Russian industrial advances could have been achieved without collectivization, famine or terror. The industrial successes were far less than claimed, and the Soviet-style industrialization was "an anti-innovative dead-end", according to him.

Answer 2

Basicly, changed from agricultural to industrial.  Focus on heavy industry. (Esp. steel)  Workers were unpaid for the sake of high economic growth, many almost to the point of starvation.  Plan called NEP, or New Economic Policy.

Most of these industries were highly inefficient, disregarded environment or safety.  Production focused on quantity, not quality, in order to progress as quickly as possible.  

  In an attempt to industrialize quickly, farms passed from small ownership to large communes.  Traditional farm equipment was too-quickly replaced with mechanical farm machines, before fuel was available or training - which again, led to mass starvation.

Answer 3

collectivized farms- basically the state owned all the farms

yet there was a small percentage of the farms that was private. Although the majority of the farms were collectivized, it was the private, capitalist minority of farms that produced the majority of the supply of food for the Soviet Union.

Prices were fixed during the communist Soviet era. Prices for say boots were the same irregardless of what city in the Soviet Union.

New Economy Plan- emphasized mass heavy industrialization of Soviet Union

The Soviet Union certainly became industrialized after Stalin but at the cost of millions of lives of people.