Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Stalin's
motives
for rapid
economic
change
- he wanted a totalitarian state
- means where he is in control of
absolutely everything aswlell as
the government
- controlled minds and
actions of people with
terror and propaganda
- "we must transform the USSR
from a weak agricultural
country dependent on world
capitalism"
- "we are 50 to 100 years behind"
- wanted to catch up with western superpowers
- NEP majorly
reduced the
capacity for
industrial production
therefore leaving
the USSR very open
to invasion
- weak military which needed to be developed
- focus on class warfare and abbolish class
defferences as it was un socialist
- however stalin knew that
specialists would be needed to
push forward with the rapid
industrialisation needed
- NEP was really capitalist so he wanted to
change it to something a lot more socialist
- wanted to extend party
control in the
countryside...... as he
wanted to destroy kulaks
and
- links to class wafare kindof