Stalin's Five Year Plans

Five Year Plans

Purpose was to greatly increase industrial production.

Goals of the Five Year Plans

more machinery, more steel production, new factories ,more oil production and more electrical power plants.

Famine in 1928

caused by a shortfall in grain production and the hoarding of the grain by farmers.

kulaks

These prosperous farmers were no longer were able to make profits when Stalin introduced a command economy where all production decisions were made by a small group of political leaders.

Forced collectivization

Private farms were taken over by the government and farmers were to work as groups and give all to the government.

The result of forced collectivization on the Soviet Union

First result was negative with widespread famine and six to seven million people died.

Second result was more positive as more could be invested in industrial development, science, education and the military.

Russian in the 1930s

Industrial output exceeded that of France, Italy and Japan.