Why did Stalin believe drastic changes where necessary and what where the key achievements of his industrialisation program?

... Why did Stalin believe drastic changes where necessary and what where the key achievements of his industrialisation program? Introduction Its 1928, Stalin has finally got into power and has crushed all that opposed him to get there. But the question that he has to think about now is how is he going to resolve the many, many problems that are facing him and his Russia brought on by Lenin. The answer he comes up with is Industrialisation, but why? And did it work? Why did he believe drastic changes where necessary? There are many reasons as to why Stalin thought that industrialisation was the best way forward for Russia; these can be divided up into five main points. The first of these points is aimed at improving Russia's military, at the moment it was in need of some sort of pick-me-up because it had taken very heavy tolls from the First World War as well

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