How did Stalin impact the Russian economy??

Question

What positive and negative things did he do to it??

Answer 1

Russian industry expanded rapidly under Stalin, with Ukraine in second place. The industrialization of the Caucasus and Central Asia began during the 1930s, and it was the Russians, aided by the Ukrainians, who ran the factories. The labour force was also predominantly Russian, as was the emerging technical intelligentsia. Stalin's nationality policy promoted native cultures, but this changed in the late 1920s, when Stalin appears to have perceived the idea that non-Russians were becoming dangerously self-confident and self-assertive, and he reversed his nationality policy. He came to the conclusion that a Sovietized Russian elite would be more effective as an instrument of modernization.

The boundaries of many autonomous republics and provinces were fashioned in such a way as to prevent non-Russians from forming a critical mass

Russia, in the guise of the U.S.S.R., had become a great power and by the 1970s was one of two world superpowers. The advent of the Cold War led to Stalin tightening his grip on his sphere of influence in eastern and southeastern Europe. Russian was imposed as the main foreign language, and Russian economic experience was copied.