What was Stalin's impact on the Soviet Economy, people and political system?

Question

In other words how did Stalin transform the economy, affect the people and change the political system?

Answer 1

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/3183.htm#gov
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http://www.casahistoria.net/Stalin2.htm
Browse down the page or just click one of the sectionson this page
...........Stalins Russia..................
Use the above link for information on the list below

1. Stalin: Background & rise to power
Biographies
The succession

2. The Stalinist State
Stalinism
Local Control
Cult of the Personality
Propaganda
Collected Documents

3. Economy, 1927-41: Overview
Collectivisation
The Impact
Ukraine Famine 1932-3

Industry: 5 Year Plans
4. The Terror
Show trials
Gulags

5. Women
6. Cultural Policy
7. Death of Stalin
8. General sites
Stalin Documents
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Stalin's First Five-Year Plan:
Sowing the Seeds of Hardship"

http://www.bu.edu/econ/faculty/kyn/newweb/economic_systems/Economics/Command_Econ/planning/stalins_first_5yp.htm

..................Excerpt Below.............
In 1928, the Communist Party approved the first of Stalin's proposed Five-Year Plans. The two major policies stipulated in his First Five-Year Plans were extremely demanding and in the long run proved to be unattainable. Firstly, he called for the collectivization of all farmlands, thus transferring the control of all private farming into the hands of the Soviet leadership. Secondly, Stalin called for the beginnings of major industrial development, especially in the areas of heavy industry. He further emphasized his call for massive industrialization when he spoke to his industrial managers in 1932, "We are 100 years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this lag in ten years. Either we do it, or they crush us!"
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Answer 2

well Stalin change Russia or the USSR because of the world war 2, not only that he also increased Russians economics by making the indistral workers work double and got more jobs for factorys