How did Stalin industrialize Russia?

[jacobin1949]

How did Stalin industrialize Russia?

I was reading Paul Kennedy's Great Power book and he had an interesting thesis on how Stalin completed Russia;s industrial revolution. Basically he lowered consumption to unheard of lows and then used the unnaturally low prices of agrarian output to pay for industry. Unfortunately Kennedy only devotes a fe w pages to this issue. I've read both Stalin's official account and "mainstream" histories and both focus on politics rather than explaining how it actually worked. If anyone knows of any online resources that explain how the 5 year plans actually functioned in achieving industrial growth, I'd really appreciate it.

[tolstoyevski]

should we say "How did Stalin industrialize USSR?"

:P

[Tower of Bebel]

Do you need to know more about which institutions where created? Or is it about which industries were set up?

[catch]

The second five year plan led to mass strikes by textile workers in the Ivanovo Industrial Region in 1932, and a lot of short work stoppages and angry assemblies during the FFYP as well. Not to mention peat bog workers strikes and peasant rebellions all over.

http://libcom.org/history/1932-vichuga-uprising

[Led Zeppelin]

"He" did it by stealing the plan from the platform of the Left Opposition. (http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1936/revbet/ch02.htm)