Stalin's Economic Policies

• Revolution from above (rather that previous ones from the proletariat "below"
• Economic Objectives:
• Behind other countries
• gaining political powers
• Almost afraid of the west, intimidated by thier progress 
• wanted soviet backwardness
• Collectivization
• huge propaganda efforts 
• Kuloks- "better off" peasants 
• gov't set them against the public in the propaganda
• many kuloks were killed, ostracized, or exiled
• Stalin wrote a letter in the party magazine, blaming all problems with collectivization on local leaders