# Industrialization The transformation of an economy from agrarian to industrial production — a process that reshaped political, social, and class structures everywhere it occurred. In the vault, industrialization appears primarily in two contexts: the [[Soviet Union]]'s forced industrialization under [[Joseph Stalin]] (which achieved rapid economic transformation at catastrophic human cost through [[Collectivization]] and the gulag labor system) and the American Gilded Age / Progressive Era tensions that produced the labor, regulatory, and antitrust frameworks the modern right seeks to dismantle. ## See Also - [[Soviet Union]] — forced industrialization as state policy - [[Joseph Stalin]] — architect of Soviet industrial transformation - [[Collectivization]] — the agricultural counterpart