Russian Revolution

The Russian Revolution negatively affected the lives of the Russian people. Though they were not being oppressed by the monarchs, they were still being oppressed by the communist leaders through giving the people no incentives, choice, nor freedom. Centralized planning was focused on industrial and agricultural development to the detriment of consumer needs.
Stalin developed a form of centralized planning in 1928 called Five-Year plans. The Five-Year Plans were programs that forced industrialization and agricultural development in the U.S.S.R. Though production was the highest in 1940 after Stalin’s Five-Year Plans as shown in document 4, peasants were being oppressed. The Soviet Union, under Stalin's control, was a harsh regime which controlled the lives of its citizens on every level. Many of the average peasants were convinced of the necessity of the on-going revolution through continuous propaganda campaigns, as shown in document 1. However this didn’t last long.
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