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THE STALIN REVOLUTION. “Revolution from Above”  Full-scale rapid industrialization  Collectivization of agriculture  Cultural revolution  Political.

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1 THE STALIN REVOLUTION

2 “Revolution from Above”  Full-scale rapid industrialization  Collectivization of agriculture  Cultural revolution  Political centralization  Terror  Cult of personality

3 THE STALIN REVOLUTION INDUSTRIALIZATION  FIRST FIVE-YEAR PLAN (1929-1932)  centralized planning: GOSPLAN  emphasis on heavy industry  unrealistic quotas

4 THE STALIN REVOLUTION INDUSTRIALIZATION  SECOND FIVE-YEAR PLAN (1933-1937)  more realistic goals  emphasis on productivity  introduced socialist competition STAKHANOVITE movement

5 THE STALIN REVOLUTION INDUSTRIALIZATION  Effects of Five-Year Plans  Growth of proletariat  New working conditions  New elites: NOMENKLATURA  New revolutionary ethos  Growth of cities

6 THE STALIN REVOLUTION INDUSTRIALIZATION  Assessments of Five-Year Plans  POSITIVE successful industrialization modernization & technological advances made USSR great power Dniepr River Hydroelectric Dam

7 THE STALIN REVOLUTION INDUSTRIALIZATION  Assessments of Five-Year Plans  NEGATIVE unrealistic goals unmet serious imbalances in economy much waste, environmental damage forced labor, high human cost

8 THE STALIN REVOLUTION COLLECTIVIZATION  Agricultural component of Five-Year Plans  Modernization of agriculture “Off to collective work”  End of private farming, NEP measures

9 THE STALIN REVOLUTION COLLECTIVIZATION  Imposed from outside & above  Created kolkhozes & sovkhozes "Don't forget about maternity assistance and consultation in kolkhozes and sovkhozes."

10 THE STALIN REVOLUTION COLLECTIVIZATION  Imposed from outside & above  Created kolkhozes & sovkhozes  Much peasant resistance  De-kulakization campaign "We will liquidate the kulaks as a class" "All to the struggle against the wreckers of agriculture."

11 THE STALIN REVOLUTION COLLECTIVIZATION  “Dizzy with Success”  government slows process  allows small private plots

12 THE STALIN REVOLUTION COLLECTIVIZATION  Famine, 1932-1933  Ukrainian “Holodomor”


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