To just concentrate on Stalin's totalitarian terror does ignore his significant achievements, however the "end doesn't justify the means". Stalin was a proud man and was proud of Russia, he realised that Russia was a backward country and without pushing USSR to modernise it would be crushed. Stalin in his speech stated "All have beaten her because of her military, industrial and agricultural backwardness... We are 50 to a 100 years behind the advanced countries either we make the difference in 10 years or they crush us." Many historians have disregarded a number of Stalin's various significant achievements of Russia and how he set the building blocks to raise Russia from a peasant community. Most historians disregard these significant achievements of Stalin's, as many of his actual goals where rarely achieved. When he set out plans to modernise Russia it caused a great loss of life and terror among the people. To be able to demonstrate the superiority of socialism over capitalism, Stalin educated the uneducated and built gigantic constructions from nothing. His main plans were known as collectivisation and the Five-Year Plans. This came at a large sacrifice to the workers, which was their loss of freedom and extremely harsh work in dreadful conditions. Stalin used terror to keep the workers, working hard to build a better Russia; there was often constant exiling to Siberia. The Great Purge's destroyed any sense of independent thinking and created terror around Russia causing many millions to die. If it weren't for Stalin's push for industrialisation the Nazis would have defeated them in the Second World War.
             When Stalin commenced his totalitarian regime he had two goals for Russia. They were to increase agriculture and industry. Stalin was working under his "socialism in one country" theory. The basic objective of his theory was to quickly transform Russia into a socia...