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Stalin announced the start of the first five-year plan for industrialization on October 1, 1928, and it lasted until December 31, 1932. Stalin described it as a new revolution from above. [12] When this plan began, the USSR was fifth in industrialization, and with the first five-year plan moved up to second, with only the United States in first ...
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.
The 2004 book The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931–1933 by R. W. Davies and Stephen G. Wheatcroft gives an estimate of 5.5 to 6.5 million deaths. [ 193 ] The Encyclopædia Britannica estimates that 6 to 8 million people died from hunger in the Soviet Union during this period, of whom 4 to 5 million were Ukrainians. [ 194 ]
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... First five-year plan may refer to: First five-year plan (China) First Five-Year Plans (Pakistan) ...
In 1928, the first five-year plan was launched by Stalin with a main focus on boosting Soviet heavy industry; [256] it was finished a year ahead of schedule, in 1932. [257] The country underwent a massive economic transformation: [258] new mines were opened, new cities like Magnitogorsk constructed, and work on the White Sea–Baltic Canal ...
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]
For a plan period (in detail for one year and in lesser detail for a five-year plan) Gosplan drew up a balance sheet in terms of units of material (i.e. money was not used as part of the accounting process). The first step in the process was to assess how much steel, cement, wool cloth, etc. would be available for the next year.
While collectivization did not meet with much success, industrialization during the Great Break did. Stalin announced his first Five-Year Plan for industrialization in 1928. The goals of his plan were unrealistic – for example, he wished to increase worker productivity by 110 percent.