The 5 Year Plans
Notes
-Plans designed to increase industry and output
-based on quota system -economic planning was now forced -Command Economy-set targets for production -First was 1928-1933- agricultural changes (collectivization) -Main focus on heavy industry -Second was 1933-1937 -Too severe and changed in 1934 -Many party officials revolted against and nominated a successor to Stalin -Stalin had him shot (beginning of the Great Purges) |
Quote
‘But if you are powerful, people must beware of you"
-Stalin
-Stalin
Political Cartoon
Subjunctive Question
Would the 5 year plan or something similar have been established if Trotsky were to have been in power?
Interesting fact
Some historians claim the tsars had done the ‘spadework’, setting up the basis for industrialisation, and that Stalin’s effort had very little effect on a process that would have happened anyway
Summary
In essence, the 5 year plan was set up by Stalin to increase industry and output. Furthermore, It enforced economic planning which implimented a command ecnomy.