Rapid Industrialization in the USSR

Stalin’s first Five Year Plan included building of steel plant in Magnitogorsk. The losses of the Civil War and World War I were made up for with the policy of rapid industrialization. Both Lenin and Stalin were striving to achieve the restoration of the economy close to that of obtained by Germany in World War I era. From one side, there was still the possibility of war with Great Britain, at least, leaders of the Soviet Union thought so.

There can be formed four major groups for the other reasons of rapid industrialization in the USSR. The county leaders hoped that through such actions it would become possible to be compared with the rates of industrial production in Germany and the United States at the same time becoming free from subordination on the View the rest of this article