ABSTRACT
The Revolution of 1917, the Civil War, subsequent nationalization, and the requisitions of War Communism sent ripple effects across every fiber of the already fragile system. The agricultural sector, under forced collectivization, yet again was the only available resource that the state could lean on to carry out industrialization reforms. Occasionally, economic historians fail to consider the massive negative repercussions of the purges on the fabric of Soviet society. The impetus that the Soviet economy received from the initial drastic productive resources reallocation measures towards heavy industry began to fade by the end of the 1930s. In economic terms, some of the figures found in Nikolai Voznesensky, that Western experts have relied on, relay the story of the devastation. The State Committee of Defense, a newly formed political and economic state body, maintained tight control over industrial capacity mobilization. The Soviet Union emerged from World War II devastated, destroyed, and sustaining immense human losses, but victorious.
