Stalin: Economy versus People

Hypothesis. “Stalin’s economic achievements were remarkable form a purely material point of view… but occurred…with absolute disregard for the welfare and wishes of its subjects.” During Stalin’s command of the USSR, his economic achievements were nothing short of remarkable. Rapid industrialisation and restructuring of agricultural arrangements was the basis of his own economic revolution for the Soviet Union in which the formerly technologically backward and economically inefficient nation would become a world …showed first 75 words of 1798 total…

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