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Stalin wanted to modernize Russia in order to ensure that it would survive against the capitalist countries. Karl Marx had said that a single communist country could not survive amidst surrounding capitalist countries. Stalin believed he could make socialism survive in one country. He also recognized that Russia was still a backward country with an agrarian economy that needed to be changed into an industrial one.

He had stated in a speech that Russia had a history of being conquered by countries that were more advanced economically and politically than Russia was at those times and that unless Russia caught up to the Western world technologically, the western countries would eventually conquer Russia again.

He felt that Russia was at least 150 years behind the West industrially and that it had to catch up within ten years in order to survive in the long run. He instituted his Five Year Plans to do that.

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becase of ww2 he wanted to get russia stronger or else he would have fallen

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so that it could meet the challenges which were to come.

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Because it was necessary. It is pretty necessary to build up a country and better the living conditions of the people.

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He made Russia an industrial superpower.

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