Stalin’s Dictatorship (Conclusion)

Conclusion

By 1939, Stalin’s dictatorship had enabled Soviet Union to become a powerful arms industrial base in the world.

However, the targets that he set were often not met. Collectivisation severely damaged Soviet agriculture, and even rapid industrialisation brought many other problems. These included overproduction, inferior quality goods and a lack of consumer goods. Hence, while the Soviet Union seemed to be generally progressing to be a modernised state, the numerous problems highlighted above show that in reality, Stalin’s ambitions for the
Soviet Union to be on par militarily and economically with the other Western powers were not fully really. While Stalin’s rule did not devastate the Soviet Union as he had transformed it to become an industrial socialist state, it came at severe economic and social costs because of the famine and millions of lives lost.