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The third five-year plan ran for only 3½ years, up to June 1941, when Germany invaded the Soviet Union during the Second World War. As war approached, more resources were put into developing armaments, tanks, and weapons, as well as constructing additional military factories east of the Ural mountains .
The first five-year plan (Russian: I пятилетний план, первая пятилетка) of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a list of economic goals, implemented by Communist Party General Secretary Joseph Stalin, based on his policy of socialism in one country.
First five-year plan may refer to: First five-year plan (China) First Five-Year Plans (Pakistan) First five-year plan (Soviet Union) See also.
The Khrushchev Thaw (Russian: хрущёвская о́ттепель, romanized: khrushchovskaya ottepel, IPA: [xrʊˈɕːɵfskəjə ˈotʲːɪpʲɪlʲ] or simply ottepel) [1] is the period from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s when repression and censorship in the Soviet Union were relaxed due to Nikita Khrushchev's policies of de-Stalinization [2] and peaceful coexistence with other nations.
[2] [3] Membership of the Bolshevik party had risen from 24,000 members in February 1917 to 200,000 members by September 1917. [4] 50,000 workers had passed a resolution in favour of the Bolshevik demand for the transfer of power to the Soviets. [5] [6] Lenin, Trotsky, and Kamenev celebrating the second anniversary of the October Revolution
[2] [3] World War II, known as "the Great Patriotic War" by Soviet historians, devastated much of the USSR, with about one out of every three World War II deaths representing a citizen of the Soviet Union. In the course of World War II, the Soviet Union's armies occupied Eastern Europe, where they established or supported Communist puppet ...
Stalin's first Five year Plan (1929–1933) was a colossal failure. Soviet population declined after 1933, and would see modest growth until 1936. [55] The figures suggest a gap of about 15 million people between anticipated population and those that survived the five-year plan. [55]
Initially, Truman hoped to work with the Soviets, but their consolidation of control in Eastern Europe and the Soviet five-year plan strained relations. Truman was reluctant to break with the Soviet Union at first, but tensions rose in places like Iran, Turkey, and Germany, and Truman became convinced that the Soviet Union sought world domination.