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By the early 20th century, Russia’s economy was stagnating. Centuries of Romanov rule and a reluctance to modernise meant Russia’s economy was largely pre-industrial, revolving around agriculture.
As wages failed to increase, living conditions remained dire and rigid class structures prevented millions from owning land: economic hardship was one of the key motivations which led Russians to join the 1917 revolution.
After 1917, Russia’s new leaders had plenty of ideas about radically reforming Russia’s economy in a very short period of time.
Lenin’s mass electrification project utterly transformed Russia in the early 1920s and signalled the start of radical economic change in the country.
As Russia entered the 1930s, its path towards economic modernisation was steered by Joseph Stalin, the General Secretary of the Communist Party.
Through a series of ‘Five Year Plans’ and at a huge human cost, he transformed Russia into a 20th-century power