• First Five Year Plan - 1928-1932

• Second Five Year Plan - 1933-1937

• Third Five Year Plan - 1938-1941

• Fourth Five Year Plan – 1946-1950

• Fifth Five Year Plan - 1951-1955

Stalin’s Five Years Plans

COLLECTIVIZATION AND RAPID INDUSTRIALIZATION • Aim to erase all traces of the capitalism that had entered under

the New Economic Policy • To transform the Soviet Union as quickly as possible, into an

industrialized and completely socialist state • Many new industrial centers were developed • With the greatest share of investment put into heavy industry,

widespread shortages of consumer goods occurred• Forced collectivization of the remaining peasants, which was

often fiercely resisted, resulted in a disastrous disruption of agricultural productivity and a catastrophic famine in 1932-33.

• Forced collectivization helped achieve Stalin's goal of rapid industrialization

First Five Year Plan (1928-1932) • Called for transforming Soviet agriculture from predominantly

individual farms into a system of large state collective farms

• Emphasized on heavy industries (reason was to lay the foundation of solid industrial growth. )

• Goal were unrealistic

• It was argued that Soviet Russia could be at a risk from the aggressive capitalist countries on account of its negligible industrialization.

First Five Year Plans (1928-1932)

• Proved to be a success, with the poor, experiencing an improvement in their economic status

• Gradually, Stalin introduced the policy of 'collectivization' (meant that individual land labour was to be consolidated into collective farms )

• Supposed to be a potent solution for the crisis of agricultural distribution

• believed that replacing the individual land and labour with collective farms would immediately increase food supply for urban population

• Between 1928 and 1940, the number of workers in the transport and construction industries almost tripled in Russia. Factor output increased, and Soviet Russia was catapulted into a leading industrial nation.

Second Five Year Plan (1933-1937)• Started in the year 1933 with a focus on heavy industries.

• Communication network, especially the Railways, was given priority by Stalin

• Uniformly successful

• The standard of living deteriorated

• Women were asked to be a part of the plan as well.

Third Five Year Plan (1938-1941)• The period where Soviet Russia entered the

Second World War.

• In terms of the fulfilment of proclaimed production goals, initially, this plan was a disappointment.

• However, the industrial growth rate of the economy during the 1930s was still going strong at 12% to 13%. And this continued even after the Second World War.

Fourth and Fifth Five Year Plan - 1946-1950 and 1951-1955

• Stalin’s focus was mainly on reconstruction due to Russia’s huge lost of economy in the Second World World.

• Despite it, Stalin promised that Russia would lead the world in industrial development by 1960.

• Stalin's Russia had no alternative but to ask the USA for a reconstruction aid. However, the disagreement on the terms of reconstruction aid led to the Cold War later.

• Stalin managed to get reparations from Germany

• A few East European countries were also asked for aid in exchange for the help that Russia gave them for liberation from Nazi atrocities.