Essay

Question 1

Evidence for profound human cost

Answer 1

👉Lenin: rationed already starving peasants to feed industrial workers, 150,000 volunteers forced to seize grain
👉5 million people died due to famine in Ukraine alone between 1932 and 1933.
👉White sea canal project total of 250,000 people died.

Question 2

Evidence for increase in industrial workforce

Answer 2

👉Lenin: under war communism there was full employment as supplies where needed for the bolsheviks.
👉In 1926 the number of people living in the big city was 26 million, and in 1932 it was 38 million.
👉Under Stalin number of women in workforce went up by 22%

Question 3

Evidence for Economic growth

Answer 3

👉Lenin: NEP - Nepmen appeared when under relaxed restrictions and brought economic growth and consumer goods
👉Real GDP per capita almost doubled between March 1921 and January 1924
👉While the West was suffering from the 1929 Wall Street Crash, Russian economy was growing at 14% per year under Stalin.