HIST 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 40: Breadbasket, Mikhail Gorbachev, Kulak
23 Feb 2017
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Last time, the rise to power of stalin during (cid:883)9(cid:884)(cid:882)"s. Them through his control of the secretariat and using the right. After consolidating his power in 1928, he planned to withdraw nep and replace it with the stalin revolution. 3 elements: rapid industrialization, forced collectivization (talk about today), and totalitarianism. First hint that end of nep was nigh came in december 1927. Congress ordered draft of five year paln. To raise soviet agrarian and industrial output. When details were announced, evidence it was to be a forced industrial revolution (second) First goal was to increase industrial production by 250% over 5 years. Works out when you consider compound growth: 21% increase a year. Triple production of pig iron, double goal. Electrical power to be increased 600%, workers productivity was to double. Second goal: catch up with the west before it was too late. Given the size of the soviet union, almost an inferiority complex.
