With What Justification May Stalin’s Policies Of Collectivisation & Industrialisation Be Described As A ‘Second Revolution’ In The USSR? “We are 50 or 100 years behind the advanced countries. We must make good of this distance in ten years. Either wee do it, or they crush us”. In 1931 Stalin made this statement at the Communist party conference, ten years later the USSR was embroiled in World War Two fighting to preserve the communist state they had built. …showed first 75 words of 1823 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1823 total…but still produce grain at an ever increasing rate). I would define a revolution as being “a complete change of conditions” and under these criteria the Five Year Plan’s were unquestionably a revolution. There were downsides (to put it lightly) to collectivisation but these do not make the period any less of a revolution. After all, no one ever said that a revolution had to be for the good of the people, did they?