Stalin scrapped Lenin's New Economic Policy (NEP) in favor of his own Five Year Plans. Stalin and other hardline Marxist/Communists felt that Lenin's NEP was a retreat from the move from capitalism...
Stalin's economic policies were simplistic to the extreme. He ruled using fear. and only reacted to a need once a shortage threatened his own position as dictator. The expertise that he employed to...
Stalin was known primarily for his Five Year Plans, designed to industrialize the Soviet economy and "collectivization" which was designed to combine small individually run farms into larger farms...