Stalin and Industrialization in the 1930’s For many countries in Europe during the early nineteen hundreds, industrialization had already left its mark and was considered widespread. Other countries were several steps behind such industrial powers as Great Britain. Their economies still depended on rural markets and there had been no influx of people to urban areas. One country, Russia, had such an economy. Joseph Stalin would soon change this, however. So, in hindsight, the Industrial …showed first 75 words of 2168 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2168 total…be said that during this time, the 1930’s, educational values, as well as women’s rights improved, that does not even begin to equal the death and destruction that Stalin’s regime caused. Works Cited and Consulted Kuromiya, Hiroaki. Stalin’s Industrial Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. McCauley, Martin. Stalin and Stalinism. New York: Longman, 1983. Nove, Alec. An Economic History of the USSR. New York: Penguin Books, 1989. Nove, Alec. The Stalin Phenomenon. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1993.