Social and economic condition of the soviet union by 1941

Question 1

economic strengths

Answer 1

Russia had become a highly industrialised and urban nation
farms had been collectivised and the free market brought to an end
population of towns and cities 17% of pop in 1926 33% by 1939
by 1940 the USSR had overtaken Britain in iron and steel production and was not far behind Germany

Question 2

economic weaknesses

Answer 2

economic development was not even in all areas
consumer good were scarcer than they had been under the NEP

Question 3

Social strengths

Answer 3

progress towards socialism as the state owned the means of production
productivity increased
greater control over the people

Question 4

social weaknesses

Answer 4

was not a classless society e.g. wage differentials
quality of goods was poor