Stalin and his industrialization plan (five year plan and collectivisation)?

Question

would you consider them success or failure? and why?

Answer 1

I'd say that they were a mixture of the two - some things were very successful, mainly prestige projects, dams, heavy engineering plants and the like; but that success caused a drought in coal and steel for smaller enterprises.

Here are some good websites for you

http://socialistworld.net/eng/2003/03/04...

http://www.katardat.org/russia/pictures/...

http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/stal...

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archiv...

Good luck with the essay

Answer 2

Success.  Russia was a backward nation before Stalin.  He was ruthless but understood what had to be done.  His success was proven when he defeated the German army from 1941 to 1945.

Answer 3

failure. Because it made life harder in the soviet union and limited the agricultural development. It later caused the purges when the peasants revolted. So it really hurt the USSR, and then Khrushev tried to fix it and de-Stalinize the USSR but it only made matters worse for the country and started the downward spiral of the USSR. But it eventually ended commmunism and showed that it was a bad economic plan. so then it might be a success