Five-Year Plan of the Soviets

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Five- Year Plans of the Soviets Launched in 1928 with the third and final one ending in 1938 with the interruption of World War II, the Five-Year Plans were put into place by Josef Stalin in the name of Communism. With this plan Stalin seized assets that included agricultural machinery to reorganize the economy. Although many were not directly affected, it would appear to these people Stalin was proactive in his leadership of the country. These efforts were disastrous for the Russian people living throughout the countryside with hundreds of thousands dying of starvation. Any persons who challenged or question Stalin’s tactics were sent to gulags or put to immediate death. Josef Stalin’s Five-Year Plan called for a quick industrialization and collectivization of agriculture. Dziewanowski (2003) stated, “The purpose of collectivization was threefold, it was to assure a continuous procurement of food without over taxing the industry, and was to be followed by mechanization of the agricultural process and to tighten the politico- economic control over the countryside” (Chapter 13). Stalin’s plan was to wipe away evidence of capitalism that had been permitted under the New Economic Policy and to make changes to Russia as soon as possible no matter the price, into an industrialized and complete socialist nation ("Revelations from the Russian Archives", 2010). The Five-Year Plan was set up to quickly industrialized the economy with the idea to build up the heavy industry, but it set up impractical goals. The plan was to increase the development of industry 250% with the heavy industry expanding over 300%. Stalin nationalized the industries and services in the Soviet Union with the trade unions converted into systems for increasing the productivities of the workers. The managers of the industries dealt with central planners who set up a predetermined quota for the
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