collectivisation and Industria
With What Justification May Stalin’s Policies Of
Collectivisation & Industrialisation Be Described As A
‘Second Revolution’ In The USSR?
“We are 50 or 100 years behind the advanced countries. We must make good of this distance in ten
years. Either wee do it, or they crush us”.
In 1931 Stalin made this statement at the Communist party conference, ten years later the USSR was
embroiled in World War Two fighting to preserve the communist state they had built. …
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…but still produce grain at an ever increasing rate). I would
define a revolution as being “a complete change of conditions” and under these criteria the Five Year
Plan’s were unquestionably a revolution. There were downsides (to put it lightly) to collectivisation
but these do not make the period any less of a revolution. After all, no one ever said that a revolution
had to be for the good of the people, did they?
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