After controlling the communist government, Stalin became to extend his influence and quickly possessed absolute …show more content…
As Stalin firmly stressed, Soviet’s economic backwardness was the result of non-modern technology in industry and agriculture that critically decreased the quantities of products and thus affected the national economy overall. Moreover, while other countries gradually transferred from small individual operations to large national business, Soviet Union’s economy still worked as a traditional system, “small commodity producers”, which caused the nation’s economy step behind when comparing to capitalism countries who highly encouraged and supported big business. Furthermore, Stalin considered the external condition more hazardous circumstance since other nations had the much more developed industry and continuously gained great achievements in technology than the Soviet Union, “compared with which our large-scale socialist industry is like an island in the midst of the sea, an island whose base is expanding daily, but which is nevertheless an island in the midst of the