History: Communism in Russia Stalins five year plan

1. Communism in Russia
1900-1940
Russia under Stalin- The five year plan
in industry.
Grade 11

2. Recap
 Previously we discussed War Communism, we
defined war communism as policies, particularly
economic, pursued by the Bolsheviks during the
Civil War in response to the ideological and
pragmatic demands of consolidating power.

3. What is a five year plan?
 A Five year plan is a personal or professional list of goals that you want to
achieve in the next five years.
 Stalins five year plans were method of planning economic growth over
limited periods, through the use of quotas used first in the Soviet Union
 Stalin implemented three plans for five years. The primary goal of the
plan was to turn the Soviet Union from a mostly agricultural into an
industrialized country.

4. The first five- year plan
 Agriculture increased- Stalin expropriated the land of the
wealthy farmers and turned them into massive collective
farms.
 The collective farms were would use the government
machines such as tractors
 This was supposedly increase agriculture
 Some farmers resisted collectivisation of their farms, so
Stallin would punish them and raise the quotas
 Peasants were not able to meet the quotas they only got
to keep the small amount of the grain they produced, that
caused people to die from starvation

5. New cities
Stalin knew he needed to develop the countries industrial
sector fast. He then created new cities in many areas.
Specialist from western countries were brought in to
teach the engineers the latest production in factories

6. Coal production increased by 84%

7. The Second five-
year plan
Further improvements were made in
communications especially in railways
which became faster and reliable.
The Quality of goods improved
In 1935 New law was permitted
Recommended production coal and oil
failed to be reached.

9. EXPLAIN TO WHAT EXTENT STALIN SUCCEEDED IN
TRANSFORMING RUSSIA INTO A SUPERPOWER BY 1939.
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