Stalin Five Year Plan Analysis

Evidence has shown that Stalin was not a savior to Russia by creating economic policies to help with the agriculture and also modernized Russia.

Stalin’s plan was to make Russia an industrial giant, so Stalin created the five-year plan to work on the farms and factories of Russia. Stalin’s five-year plans were a series of nation wide centralized economic plans in the Soviet Union (Wikipedia). What that meant was that peasants who didn’t have jobs were required to work on a specific goal that Stalin had to increase what was considered as an economy booster. The first Five Year Plan introduced in 1928, concentrated on the development of iron and steel, machine-tools, electric power and transport. Joseph Stalin set the workers high targets. He demanded a 110% increase in coal production, 200% increase in iron production and 335% increase in electric power. He justified these demands by claiming that if rapid industrialization did not take place, the Soviet Union would not be able to defend itself against an invasion from capitalist countries in the west (John Simkin). So the peasants would have work to increase production of Iron and Steel, which could be sold to increase Russia’s economy but not help benefit these peasants.

For the Second Five Year Plan, Stalin expanded the goals of his previous plan and placed an emphasis on heavy industry. This plan aimed to advance the Soviet Union’s communication systems, especially railways, which improved in both speed and reliability. The Second Five Year Plan failed to reach the level of success of the previous plan, as it did not reach goal production levels in the coal and oil industries. This plan incorporated newer methods of increasing production, including incentives, punishments, ...

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...t Party, repression of poor,persecution of people who were not affiliated and the leadership of Red. Wide spread police surveillance, imprisonment, spread suspicion of saboteurs and executions. During the great purge also known as the great terror, Stalin made sure that those who knew too much about the purge of the Army and Stalin's critics were killed. Joseph Stalin put fear in every soviet by having critics of his policies of collectivization and treatment of peasants arrested and prosecuted. Stalin ruled as a dictator of the Soviet Union from 1932 till his death in 1957. (Ask.com)

In conclusion, Stalin was a not a savior to Russia. During his rule Stalin had goals of improving the economy and making a stronger army, but created a dictating government where no one was able to speak their mind to improve Russia. So there for Stalin was not a savior for Russia.