5 Year Plan
- A series of plans designed to increase industry and output
- Based on quota system - Economic planning was now forced - Command Economy - set targets for production - First was 1928-1933 agricultural changes (collectivization) - Main focus on heavy industry - Second was 1933-1937 - Too severe and changed in 1943 - Many party officials revolted against this and nominated a successor to Stalin - Stalin had him shot (Beginning of the Great Purges) "At the present time we are exercising our main influence on the international revolution by our economic policy. All eyes are turned on the Soviet Russian Republic, the eyes of all toilers in all countries of the world without exception and without exaggeration. This we have achieved. . . . That is the field to which the struggle has been transferred on a world-wide scale. If we solve this problem, we shall have won on an international scale surely and finally. That is why questions of economic construction assume absolutely exceptional significance for us. On this front we must win victory by slow, gradual — it cannot be fast — but steady progress upward and forward"
Excerpt from the 5 Year plan What if the need for only 1 five year plan was sufficient. Would the outcome be different than the two?
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Another one of Stalin's ideas to try and help the industry. Again, all opposers shot.
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