EE Sample 7: Stalin: terror and coercion during first Five Year Plan
Introduction 1928-1932 was the period of the First Five Year Plan (FFYP) when the Soviet Union underwent economic, social and political changes which determined its historic development and made the USSR a superpower. The FFYP’s hallmarks were rapid industrialisation, collectivisation in agriculture, conclusive socialist transformation of the society, and the development of the command economy and totalitarian...