Topic: Russia

Q: How successful were the Agricultural and Industrial policies pursued by the USSR in the 1930's?
My answer:
The 1930's had been a transformation for the Soviet Union, but at the end of the 1920s the Soviet Union remained a backward state in comparison with other major powers. Twelve years of Communist rule had restored the country to roughly the same position in economy that had been occupied in 1913. This can to some extent be regarded as a great achievement in view of the appalling cost of the First World War: and the following period that had been Civil War.
Agricultural policies for…