Скачать или смотреть Gr 11 History - Stalin’s 5-Year Plans Explained: Economic Transformation vs Human Cost | 1928–1939

This tutorial provides a detailed, exam-focused explanation and an essay of Stalin’s Five-Year Plans (1928–1939), critically examining whether they truly transformed the Soviet Union into an industrial superpower — and at what human cost.
We explore:
• Why Stalin introduced the Five-Year Plans
• The role of Gosplan and centralised economic planning
• Collectivisation and dekulakisation in agriculture
• Industrialisation and infrastructure projects (Magnitogorsk, Dnieprostroi Dam, Belomor Canal, railways)
• Working and living conditions of Soviet workers
• The use of forced labour (Gulags)
• Famine, including the Holodomor and the Kazakh famine
• Political repression and the Great Purge
• Social policies: education, healthcare, women, and propaganda
Perfect for history students, exam revision (Grade 11 CAPS, IGCSE, A-Level, IB, university) and anyone studying Stalinism, communism, or totalitarian regimes.
Key skill focus:
✔ Critical evaluation
✔ Multiple historical perspectives
✔ Linking evidence to argument (PEEL method)