State the measure Stalin took to improve the soviet economy
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Starting in 1928, the five-year plans began building a heavy industrial base at once in an underdeveloped economy without waiting years for capital to accumulate through the expansion of light industry, and without reliance on external financing. The country now became industrialized at a hitherto unprecedented pace, surpassing Germany's pace of industrialization in the 19th century and Japan's earlier in the 20th century.
After the reconstruction of the economy (in the wake of the destruction caused by the Russian Civil War) was completed, and after the initial plans of further industrialisation were fulfilled, the explosive growth slowed down until the period of Brezhnev stagnation in the 1970s and 1980s.
Campaigns were carried out against typhus, cholera, and malaria; the number of physicians increased as rapidly as facilities and training would permit; and death and infant mortality rates steadily decrease.
The first Five Year Plan introduced in 1928, concentrated on the development of iron and steel, machine-tools, electric power and transport. Joseph Stalin set the workers high targets. He demanded a 110% increase in coal production, 200% increase in iron production and 335% increase in electric power. He justified these demands by claiming that if rapid industrialization did not take place, the Soviet Union would not be able to defend itself against an invasion from capitalist countries in the west.
The five main measures taken by Stalin are the following:
1. He assumed that rich farmers and merchants in the country were holding stocks in the hope of higher prices. Therefore, to make the economy work properly he stopped the holding of the stock.
2. In 1928, his party members visited the plantation and raided Kulkas (the wealthy peasants). When the food crisis could not be overturned only then he induced the collectivization farming.
3. Modern means of farming were introduced: Stalin made the peasants use the model farming equipment, for example, tractors.
4. Literary schemes: he encouraged peasants for education.
5. Introduction to the five-year plan: he launched the five-year plan, which focused more on heavy industries (oil, gas, steal and coal etc.).