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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 ...
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 ...
The growth of the physical volume of the gross industrial output of the Soviet Union in the years of the 1st and 2nd five-year plans (1928–1937) [31] Products 1928 1932 1937 1928 to 1932 (%) 1st Five-Year Plan 1928 to 1937 (%) 1st and 2nd Five-Year Plans; Cast iron, million tons: 3.3: 6.2: 14.5: 188: 439 Steel, million tons: 4.3: 5.9: 17.7 ...
This Central Committee composition led the party and the country through the first five-year plan, Syrtsov–Lominadze affair, dekulakization, collectivization of agriculture, Ryutin Affair, Soviet famine of 1932–33 (which has led to accusation of "extermination by hunger" by the Ukrainian state), the beginning of the second five-year plan ...
The League had grown from 87,000 members in 1926 to 500,000 in 1929 and it reached a peak of 5,670,000 in 1931 (dropping to 5.5 million in 1932) [52] (it had intended to get 17 million, however, as its target). It declined to 2 million in 1938, but rose again to 3.5 million in 1941. [53] The Communist party at the time had 1.8 million members. [54]
In his work, Revolution Betrayed, Trotsky argued that the excessive authoritarianism under Stalin had undermined the implementation of the First five-year plan. He noted that several engineers and economists who had created the plan were themselves later put on trial as "conscious wreckers who had acted on the instructions of a foreign power". [9]
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.
USSR Medal "For Labour Valour". The Stakhanovite movement was established and developed by the Soviet Communist Party; it was started in 1935 during the second Soviet five-year plan—as a new stage of sponsored socialist competition/socialist emulation, and as the continuation of the Party's rapid industrialization initiative and its forced collectivization of farming begun seven years prior ...