Despite the soviets unions initial desires to pursue a global revolution policy soon changed in light of reality and a shift in doctrine modernization in one country and with an unprecedented speed was pursued. The initial policy of War Communism proved hopeless in regards to modernization, the NEP proved more successful however, it too became incapable of achieving the rapid modernization. Stalin's policy launched with the "great turn" back to socialism of collectivization and the …
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…USSR or the Bolshevik regime. Collectivization did little to further the economic stability of the nation and the NEP was an economic policy based on an agrarian competitive advantage. Neither policy lent itself to sustainable modernization. Stalin's fierce brutality under the FYPs, modernization and dekulakisation were socially destructive yet economically astounding. Modernization was finally the central role of the Soviet ruling group, with its survival and solidity gaining greater importance as the war waged on.