ct number of ball bearings needed. They would never make any extra expenditures. This tight control of materials may have seemed to save money, but it actually cost the Russians. If a machine were to break down, there would be no extra parts to repair it. This severely hindered Russian efficiency. The Gosplan also controlled who would be working with the machinery. They controlled who would be trained in technical schools and for what job they would be trained for. To put it simply, the Gosplan had total control of any form of capitalism. Stalin's aim was to build up the heavy industry, or capital wealth, of the USSR. The second part of the five year plan was the collective cultivation of farm land.Stalin succeeded in using the Five Year Plans to make great strides in industrializing Russia. When he tried to equal that success with agricultural growth he met with some resistance and ended up liquidating an entire social class and causing famine. Socially, he gave important benefits to workers and gave women equal rights. However, he also tried to purge the country and eliminated a lot of the Communist party, most of the army, and a good portion of workers and peasants. It seemed that when Stalin first started out as leader of Russia, he truly had Lenin’s ideology in mind for a truly successful and competent socialist society; but once power was attained, he had to have more and would have so by way of any means possible. Stalin made several industrial improvements for his country but that does not even begin to equal the death and destruction that he caused.Between 1924 and 1928, Stalin used his position to remove his opposition from the Party. He was the unchallenged leader of the Soviet Union by 1929. As leader of the Soviet Union he ordered the creation of the collective farms to aid in the rapid industrialization of the country. When poor management of the farms caused thousands of people to die in a famine; Stalin continued...
