Describe The Changes That Occur In Russia 1900-1960

From 1900 through 1960, Russia participated in the First and Second World War and even started to fight in the Cold War. Russia was going through major reforms and industrialization to catch up with other countries. One change that occurred in Russia from 1900 to 1960 was that it tried to become more industrial so that it could be compared to other European countries. Russia was trying to do what other European countries were doing for years but it was seen a major threat because it was communist. However, Russia wasn’t always communist. Another change that occurred in Russia from 1900 to 1960 is that monarchy became ineffective and communism was seen as a solution.. Despite these two changes, social classes in Russia stayed relatively the same, as well as treatments of these classes. As always, Russia

Most of Europe had already become industrialized. Britain’s industrial revolution had started in the eighteenth century and France had started industrializing in the 1800s, for example. Industrializing gave these countries an advantage over Russia because they could produce better farming equipment with their steel and had more things to sell and trade. One of the reasons that Russia wasn’t able to industrialize at that time is that in order to have a healthy working class population, a country needs to have a stable agriculture that feed everyone. However, Russia had many great famines and the weather also undoubtedly made it difficult to farm. Russia finally started to industrialize in 1928 once Stalin implemented his five year plans. He increased food production by forcing peasants into collectivization. This allowed some people to move to cities and work on producing machinery, steel, and oil. The massive industrialization and progress of Russia was even underestimated by Hitler during the Second World