The Earth and Its Peoples - Chapter 30
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World History [1]
CHAPTER 30 The Collapse of the Old Order, 1929?1949 SEQ NLI \r 0 \h ?? seq NL1 \r 0 \h CHAPTER OUTLINE I?? seq NLA \r 0 \h . The Stalin Revolution A?? seq NL1 \r 0 \h . Five-Year Plans 1?? seq NL_a \r 0 \h . Joseph Stalin, the son of a poor shoemaker, was a skillful administrator who rose within the Communist Party and used his power within the bureaucracy to eliminate Leon Trotsky and all other contenders for power. Stalin then set about the task of industrializing the Soviet Union in such a way as to increase the power of the Communist Party domestically and to increase the power of the Soviet Union in relation to other countries.