Stalin implemented several "Five Year Plans" in order to manage and control the economy of the USSR according to central planning techniques. rather than by the free hand of the marketplace.
Stalin industrialized his country; formed 'communes' of workers, miners and farmers; and gave emphasis on mass and collective production.Stalin dismantled Lenin's New Economic Policy and all of its...
He ruled through fear and his secret police, who would arrest anyone for any misdemeanor, no matter how small. He also instilled the Great Purge, which got rid of anybody who might challenge his...
Stalin was extremely effective at modernizing and industrializing the USSR. He had several 5 year plans for improving the USSR and he carried them out. He took Russia from the 19th century into the...