Impact of Stalanism on the Soviet State
The concept of Stalinism, being the ideologies and policies adopted by Stalin, including centralization, totalitarianism and communism, impacted, to an extent, on the soviet state until 1941. After competing with prominent Bolshevik party members Stalin emerged as the sole leader of the party in 1929. From this moment, Stalinism pervaded every level of society. Despite the hindrance caused by the bureaucracy, the impact of Stalinism was achieved through the implementation of collectivization and the 5-year plans, Stalin’s Political domination and Cultural influence, including the ‘Cult of the Personality’. This therefore depicts the influence of Stalinism over the Soviet State in the period up to 1941.
In the period before 1941, Stalin was able to institute his economical policies of Collectivization and the 5-year plans. ‘Backwards was to be defeated and enslaved’. Russia had to make up for 100 years of lost time for fear of being consumed by the western world. Stalin, sole leader of the Bolsheviks by the late 1920’s, believed that Russia could modernize their Agricultural and Industrial sectors through his policies.
Collectivization was designed to modernize Russia’s agriculture by merging farms and placing them under state control. In the short term, this policy resulted in famines and Stalin’s ‘war’ against the Kulaks; wealthy peasants who opposed communism. By 1935, 5 million people had died from starvation and all 7 million Kulaks had been liquidized, through shooting or the labour camps or ‘Gulags’. However, by 1939, Collectivization was working efficiently with 99% of land merged and 90% of peasants living ¼ of a million Kolkhoz. Although at a heavy price, the exports needed to obtain the capitol for industrialization had been acquired.
The 5-year plans objective was to dramatically increase industrialization, helped along by collectivization. Within a decade, Soviet Russia became the second most industrial power in the world. The party determined
In the period before 1941, Stalin was able to institute his economical policies of Collectivization and the 5-year plans. ‘Backwards was to be defeated and enslaved’. Russia had to make up for 100 years of lost time for fear of being consumed by the western world. Stalin, sole leader of the Bolsheviks by the late 1920’s, believed that Russia could modernize their Agricultural and Industrial sectors through his policies.
Collectivization was designed to modernize Russia’s agriculture by merging farms and placing them under state control. In the short term, this policy resulted in famines and Stalin’s ‘war’ against the Kulaks; wealthy peasants who opposed communism. By 1935, 5 million people had died from starvation and all 7 million Kulaks had been liquidized, through shooting or the labour camps or ‘Gulags’. However, by 1939, Collectivization was working efficiently with 99% of land merged and 90% of peasants living ¼ of a million Kolkhoz. Although at a heavy price, the exports needed to obtain the capitol for industrialization had been acquired.
The 5-year plans objective was to dramatically increase industrialization, helped along by collectivization. Within a decade, Soviet Russia became the second most industrial power in the world. The party determined