socialism in one country gosplan- oversaw the program of industrialization, setting production...
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Socialism in One CountryGosplan- oversaw
the program of industrialization, setting production goals.
Electricity, power plants, iron, steel industry
Success of the Five Year PlansSoviet industrial production grew 400%
between 1928-1940.Migration of hundreds of thousands to
industrial cities.Human toll.
Collectivization High grain production, nothing to buy.Take over peasant farms into one collective
state-owned farm.
KulaksProsperous peasant farmers, Stalin blamed
for food shortages.Stalin attempted to eliminate this class.
Foreign responses“A New Civilization”- Fabian Socialists“ I have seen the future and its works”-
American writer Lincoln Steffens