Industrialisation and modernisation
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Driven by Tsarist ministers through foreign loans and by Communist leaders through state-directed methods, it produced limited, uneven growth under the Tsars and massive heavy industrial output under Soviet rule.
The Five-Year Plans transformed the USSR into a major industrial power, vastly increasing coal, steel, and electricity output and providing a crucial foundation for war.
The transition from rapid industrialisation under the Kaiserreich, later shaped by two world wars, hyperinflation and the Great Depression.
Topics that use Industrialisation and modernisation
- 1H Tsarist and Communist Russia, 1855–1964 – consequence in this period through the following key questions: (AQA A-Level)
- 1L The quest for political stability: Germany, 1871–1991 – consequence in this period through the following key questions: (AQA A-Level)
- 2N Revolution and dictatorship: Russia, 1917–1953 – Economy and society, 1929–1941 (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
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