Stalin's Five-Year Plan: Soviet Industrialization, 1928-1932, Study notes of Russian history

Download Stalin's Five-Year Plan: Soviet Industrialization, 1928-1932 and more Study notes Russian history in PDF only on Docsity! 1 The First 5 Year Plan 1928-1932 Reasons for Enactment: 1. Build Communism in one country (totally against Marx, but Bolsheviks realize that world wide revolution is far off) 2. Restructure Soviet economy in order to compete with other modern nations 3. Counter-act the effects of NEP (NEP grew semi-capitalists (NEPmen) and small businesses) 4. Soviet leadership convinced that another “imperialist” war was going to happen Goal: 1. Modernize military 2. Increase production of coal, iron, electricity, and machinery How: 1. Reduce money paid to peasants for their crops 2. Collectivize agriculture by confiscating land, livestock, and tools 3. Imprison and sometimes execute Kulaks (kulaks resisted because they had more to loose, thus liquidated as a class) 4. Village class war: means by which collectivization was accomplished Successes: 1. Stalin pronounced First Five Year Plan (1928-1932) as successful 2. Oil iron, and steel production doubled 3. Electricity output tripled 4. 2 nd Five Year Plan made USSR third largest industrial power Collectivization Issues: 1. Peasants (big and small farmers) slaughtered livestock rather than turn it over 2. Depression caused worldwide drop in agriculture prices, which required more ag. Products to be exported to off set drop in price 3. Two summers of bad weather 4. Add 1-3 together, and the result is a feminine in 1932 (2-3 million die, but Stalin has reports squashed) 5. Propoganda increased to “sell” the Five Year Plan ** By 1939, almost completely collectivized