Sources on Communism

In Stalin's "Five Year Plan" he really responds to how weak the U.S.S.R is.  He talks about how his plan is going to make the U.S.S.R to an industrial powerhouse to be able to self sustain themselves and be able to be full independent of the caprices of world capitalism. Stalin also includes a long list of self developed industries he had proposed during his five year plan such as tractors, automobiles, machine tools, electric power, ect... Also at the end of the first article he says this: "We have achieved such important successes as to evoke admiration among the working class all over the world, we have achieved a victory that is truly of world-wide historic significance." I think this quote was really interesting to me because there is so many other advances and achievements that could be reached like decrease in crime rate, country hunger problems solved and the resolve of peace between neighboring countries. I think the idea of collectivization didn't really benefit as much as it could have if the farms produced more as a bigger unit. Bringing together small scale farms to form big one don't necessarily work out because those farm owners only know how to run on a small scale basis and would get lost and start to decline when adapting and trying to run a large scale farm. In my opinion even if the five year plan was executed i don't think the U.S.S.R would have prospered anymore than it did without it, it maybe even would have been worst for the country.