industrialization - 5 year plans
-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 1934
-Many party officials revolted against this and nominated a successor to Stalin
-Stalin had him shoot (beginning of the Great Purges)
-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 1934
-Many party officials revolted against this and nominated a successor to Stalin
-Stalin had him shoot (beginning of the Great Purges)
summary
The first five-year plan of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a list of economic goals, created by General Secretary Joseph Stalin and based on his policy of Socialism in One Country. Between 1928 and 1932.
Stalin edited the plan to include the creation of collective farming systems that stretched over thousands of acres of land and had hundreds of peasants working on them. The creation of collective farms essentially destroyed the kulaks as a class, and also brought about the slaughter of millions of farm animals that these peasants would rather kill than give up to the gigantic farms. This disruption led to a famine in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan as well as areas of the Northern Caucasus.
Stalin edited the plan to include the creation of collective farming systems that stretched over thousands of acres of land and had hundreds of peasants working on them. The creation of collective farms essentially destroyed the kulaks as a class, and also brought about the slaughter of millions of farm animals that these peasants would rather kill than give up to the gigantic farms. This disruption led to a famine in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan as well as areas of the Northern Caucasus.