At the same time , the state shifted to the centralized distribution of the means of production and consumer goods belonging to it , the introduction of command-administrative methods of management and the nationalization of private property were carried out . A political system emerged based on the leading role of the All-Union Communist Party ( Bolsheviks ) , state ownership of the means of production and a minimum of private initiative . Also began the widespread use of forced labor by prisoners of the Gulag , special settlers and rear militia
special settlers
Dekulakization
Industrialization in the Soviet Union