WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Soviet Union Show trials became common during Joseph Stalin’s political repressions, such as the Moscow Trials of the Great Purge period (1937–38). Such trials paralleled the institution of self-criticism within Communist Party cadres and Soviet society. The Soviet authorities staged the actual trials meticulously.

Detailed explanation-2: -His aims were to erase all traces of the capitalism that had entered under the New Economic Policy and to transform the Soviet Union as quickly as possible, without regard to cost, into an industrialized and completely socialist state.

Detailed explanation-3: -The primary goal of the plan was to turn the Soviet Union from a mostly agricultural into an industrialized country. The secondary goal was collectivization of agriculture which was supposed to aid in industrialization. One of the reasons for the plan’s launch in 1928 was the grain shortage of 1927-1928.

Detailed explanation-4: -The United States and the Soviet Union both contributed to the rise of the Cold War. They were ideological nation-states with incompatible and mutually exclusive ideologies. The founding purpose of the Soviet Union was global domination, and it actively sought the destruction of the United States and its allies.

Detailed explanation-5: -Stalin sought to destroy his enemies while transforming Soviet society with central planning, in particular through the forced collectivization of agriculture and rapid development of heavy industry. Stalin consolidated his power within the party and the state and fostered an extensive cult of personality.