HST 101 Lecture Notes - Blitzkrieg, Lightning, El Alamein
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Joseph stalin, the son of a poor shoemaker, was a skillful administrator who rose within the communist party and used his power within the bureaucracy to eliminate leon. Stalin then set about the task of industrializing the soviet union in such a way as to increase the power of the communist. Under the five-year plans the soviet union achieved rapid industrialization, accompanied by the kind of environmental change that was experienced by the united. States and canada during their period of industrialization several decades earlier. Consumer goods became scarce and food was rationed: stalin"s policies of industrialization and collectivization could only be carried out by threats and by force. In the late 1930s the contrast between the economic strength of the soviet. Union and the depression troubles of the capitalist nations gave many the impression that stalin"s planned economy was a success. Britain, who then could not repay their war loans to the united states.
