What effect did war have on industry?

Answer 1

War did, and continues to have, a large effect on industry in both nations involved. To fight a war, the military needs guns, bullets, tanks, planes, computers, uniforms, you name it. Obviously, the government doesn't constantly purchase wartime supplies of these goods from manufacturerers. So when the demand increases during war, production of these good exceeds the level of peacetime production. As a result, industry booms. However, war can have a negative impact on industry if the war is being fought near the center of industrial production or if the supply lines for raw materials is interupted by the fighting. For example, a factory may be producing record numbers of bullets for the war effort, but if the rail lines that bring the gunpowder and lead to the factory are destroyed by the fighting, the factory will not be able to operate.

Answer 2

Just as in the United States it helped to an extent. The US did not have the geographic problems that Russia did as it was right next to the conflict at the beginning of the war. Under Stalin the nation had already industrialized form about 1927 to the beginning of the war as Stalin knew that heavy industry would be the only way to exert influence and power and to support the economy, this resulted in a serious issue in agriculture and killed millions and so did his Great Purge of the 30's which killed another few million but again supported Russia's economy by ridding the opposition. So for the most part Russia had been modernized to a point and was able to hold of the Nazis, but it had a large effect on the growth of the nation as well as industrialization, but lets not forget it killed (as a conservative number) in the area of 14 million people. SOme will say only 11 million or even 27 million but realistically it was in the middle.