Similarities Between Hitler And Russia
IV. Differences
Although both Stalinist USSR and Hitler's Nazi Germany shared some similarities in terms of the means of their rule, these two totalitarian regimes differed from each other in economic and social aspects.
(1) Economic Institution
The USSR - Collectivization
The Five Year Plan started under Lenin and continued by Stalin which enabled the USSR to develop economically but at a great cost to the Soviet people. Indeed, Stalin strengthened the state's existing dominance: legal private entreprise above the level of highly-restricted individual production and commerce practically ceased. However, the Five Year Plans for industry were ambitious and far-reaching. They assumed nothing less than the transformation of the Soviet Union …show more content…
Private enterprises were to be eliminated. Talking about collectivization, it was a policy to transform traditional agriculture in the Soviet Union and to reduce the economic power of the Kulaks. It had a serious impact on the USSR and created a man-made famine in Ukraine. As Richard Charques said in his book, "But among the ghastly fruits of the campaign for collectivization was the 'man-made famine' of 1931-32 in the Ukraine and the northern Caucasus, where it had been resisted most fiercely and where the fields had lain almost totally neglected. There were millions of deaths from starvation in these regions." Yet, despite all the problems, the plan was successful in many aspects. The USSR's economy improved dramatically in just 10 years. Housing, sanitation and shopping all struggled to keep up with the pace of …show more content…
This was called 'Autarky', meaning self-sufficient by suspending and terminating foreign help and supplies. Hermann Goering’s Four Year Plan was therefore proposed to get the army and industry ready for war in 4 years. However as a result of this, businesses within or out of the country were strictly controlled; although businessmen were encouraged to invest more, at the same time they were not allowed to raise wages to workers and workers could only be sent to other factories. Hence this may lower the workers' incentives to work. Thus, these policies had a lot advantages though, it had also caused massive economic problems and discontentment among Germans despite the aim of these policies were to tackle the devastated impacts by the Great Depression and restoring Germany from a high unemployment rate into full
Although both Stalinist USSR and Hitler's Nazi Germany shared some similarities in terms of the means of their rule, these two totalitarian regimes differed from each other in economic and social aspects.
(1) Economic Institution
The USSR - Collectivization
The Five Year Plan started under Lenin and continued by Stalin which enabled the USSR to develop economically but at a great cost to the Soviet people. Indeed, Stalin strengthened the state's existing dominance: legal private entreprise above the level of highly-restricted individual production and commerce practically ceased. However, the Five Year Plans for industry were ambitious and far-reaching. They assumed nothing less than the transformation of the Soviet Union …show more content…
Private enterprises were to be eliminated. Talking about collectivization, it was a policy to transform traditional agriculture in the Soviet Union and to reduce the economic power of the Kulaks. It had a serious impact on the USSR and created a man-made famine in Ukraine. As Richard Charques said in his book, "But among the ghastly fruits of the campaign for collectivization was the 'man-made famine' of 1931-32 in the Ukraine and the northern Caucasus, where it had been resisted most fiercely and where the fields had lain almost totally neglected. There were millions of deaths from starvation in these regions." Yet, despite all the problems, the plan was successful in many aspects. The USSR's economy improved dramatically in just 10 years. Housing, sanitation and shopping all struggled to keep up with the pace of …show more content…
This was called 'Autarky', meaning self-sufficient by suspending and terminating foreign help and supplies. Hermann Goering’s Four Year Plan was therefore proposed to get the army and industry ready for war in 4 years. However as a result of this, businesses within or out of the country were strictly controlled; although businessmen were encouraged to invest more, at the same time they were not allowed to raise wages to workers and workers could only be sent to other factories. Hence this may lower the workers' incentives to work. Thus, these policies had a lot advantages though, it had also caused massive economic problems and discontentment among Germans despite the aim of these policies were to tackle the devastated impacts by the Great Depression and restoring Germany from a high unemployment rate into full