ABSTRACT
Stalin proceeded to the implementation of decisions relating to the industrialization of the country and the collectivization of its agriculture, having become the undisputed master of the Central Committee of the Party, and of the Politburo. The experience which he had acquired during the long period of conflict, and the first twelve years of the existence of the USSR, had enabled him to perfect his tactics, which as time elapsed became more and more dynamic, more and more logical. On the 26 June, 1930, at the height of the collectivization and industrialization, the Sixteenth Party Congress assembled. The great barrage on the Dnieper was under construction, while at Krematorsk and Gorlovka enormous factories were being built in which tractors would be produced. The locomotive factory at Lugansk-Vorochilovgrad had been rebuilt. In the Ural engineering workshops and chemical factories were being established, and the stupendous Kouznetk-Magnitogorsk Combine was nearing completion. Stalin was at the centre of all this activity.
