1. How Successful Was Stalins Industrialisation
However, it is quite possible that Stalin overstated the probability of war deliberately to push through his ambitions and to strengthen his personal power within the party. ... The fact that when in 1941, the Soviet Union was almost smashed by Hitler's blitzkrieg supports the idea that Stalin didn't actually take the threat of invasion seriously and was in fact using it entirely for his own glorification. ... Since the revolution, trade with the outside world had been severely reduced and the U.S.S.R had to rely almost entirely on its own resources to industrialise. ...
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