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Background to the Five-Year Plans
Imagine you manage a factory in the Soviet Union in the 1930s. Your factory has doubled its output over the last few years, an amazing feat. You expect to be praised for your leadership but instead are arrested for not doing more to help the Soviet economy, condemned, and sent a labor camp where you die very young. Such situations were not unheard of under Stalin's Five-Year Plans.
Before the Five-Year Plans, the Soviet Union had been using what was called the New Economic Policy (NEP). NEP allowed for a mixed economy with elements of both socialism and capitalism. NEP was intended to help the Soviet economy recover from its civil wars and allow for a gradual transition to socialism. Some Bolsheviks saw NEP as a step back from communism and wanted a more rapid transition to communism. There was also a grain shortage from 1927 to 1928 that caused many people to oppose NEP.
The First Five-Year Plan
Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953, decided to abandon NEP and industrialize the Soviet Union. Gosplan, the state planning committee, created the Five-Year Plans, outlining goals for the Soviet economy to meet, beginning in 1928.
The main feature of the first Five-Year Plan called for the rapid industrialization of the Soviet economy. The Soviet Union's economy was primarily based on agriculture. An industrialized economy is one that is primarily based in manufacturing. Industrialization had two big appeals for the Soviets:
An industrialized economy would better be able to win a war with another countryAccording to the Marxist theory that the Soviet Union ascribed to, communism developed in industrialized, rather than agricultural economies.
Along with plans for industrialization, the First Five-Year Plan also called for the collectivization of agriculture. Collectivization meant that land would no longer belong to individual peasants, but to the state. Peasants either joined a collective farm, a large farm made up of their own former land and their neighbors, or a state farm. Collectivization can be thought of as an attempt to industrialize agriculture.
Many peasants resisted attempts to collectivize. They liked working their own land and didn't want to lose it. Many decided to slaughter their own farm animals instead of giving them up to the collective. The Holodomor, a term for the mass man-made famine in Ukraine from 1932 to 1933, is thought to have been an attempt by the government to punish Ukrainian peasants for resisting collectivization.
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Background to the Five-Year Plans
Imagine you manage a factory in the Soviet Union in the 1930s. Your factory has doubled its output over the last few years, an amazing feat. You expect to be praised for your leadership but instead are arrested for not doing more to help the Soviet economy, condemned, and sent a labor camp where you die very young. Such situations were not unheard of under Stalin's Five-Year Plans.
Before the Five-Year Plans, the Soviet Union had been using what was called the New Economic Policy (NEP). NEP allowed for a mixed economy with elements of both socialism and capitalism. NEP was intended to help the Soviet economy recover from its civil wars and allow for a gradual transition to socialism. Some Bolsheviks saw NEP as a step back from communism and wanted a more rapid transition to communism. There was also a grain shortage from 1927 to 1928 that caused many people to oppose NEP.
The First Five-Year Plan
Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953, decided to abandon NEP and industrialize the Soviet Union. Gosplan, the state planning committee, created the Five-Year Plans, outlining goals for the Soviet economy to meet, beginning in 1928.
The main feature of the first Five-Year Plan called for the rapid industrialization of the Soviet economy. The Soviet Union's economy was primarily based on agriculture. An industrialized economy is one that is primarily based in manufacturing. Industrialization had two big appeals for the Soviets:
An industrialized economy would better be able to win a war with another countryAccording to the Marxist theory that the Soviet Union ascribed to, communism developed in industrialized, rather than agricultural economies.
Along with plans for industrialization, the First Five-Year Plan also called for the collectivization of agriculture. Collectivization meant that land would no longer belong to individual peasants, but to the state. Peasants either joined a collective farm, a large farm made up of their own former land and their neighbors, or a state farm. Collectivization can be thought of as an attempt to industrialize agriculture.
Many peasants resisted attempts to collectivize. They liked working their own land and didn't want to lose it. Many decided to slaughter their own farm animals instead of giving them up to the collective. The Holodomor, a term for the mass man-made famine in Ukraine from 1932 to 1933, is thought to have been an attempt by the government to punish Ukrainian peasants for resisting collectivization.
I hope that this will help you.
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