Stalin’s first Five Year Plan forced the Soviet Union into a brutal race for industrial power. Factories rose quickly, but food production collapsed and millions of peasants were driven into famine.

Under Stalin’s ruthless drive for control, the policy of Dekulakization aimed to eliminate any trace of independence among the peasantry. Once respected landowners, the kulaks became targets of ...

A timeline of Stalin's life, the man that oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and who was the supreme ruler of ...