Features of the social and economic sphere of the USSR in 1920-1930

Abstract

The article attempts to reveal the main peculiarities of the development of the social and economic sphere of the USSR in 1920-1930, as the most difficult period of development of Soviet statehood, the period of creation of a powerful administrative-command system of administration. The political leadership of the USSR considered that all phenomena in the economic life of the country should have been under the tight control and leadership of the ruling Communist Party. The system of counteracting various abuses in the economy was closely interconnected and mutually agreed with the economic policy of the State. In the second half of the 1920s, the party leadership set a task for the country: to achieve significant economic growth, the basis of which was to be the reconstruction of the national economy. The economy itself, the bulk of it, was to become «on socialist rails.» This, in turn, meant a strong expansion of the public sector by displacing other sectors of the economy, primarily private sectors. Control of the ruling party of the Communist Party (b) of the socio-economic life of the country became absolute. The results presented in the article can be used by the state authorities as both positive and negative experience in the development of the two leading spheres of public life of the Soviet State.