Five Year Plans
- The Five year plans, a series of plans to increase heavy industrial output, were designed to put Russia on par with the industrial powers of Germany and Britain.
- These plans were based on a quota system. This is called a Command Economy.
- The problem with these plans was that the quotas was set so high, that they were hardly met and when they were the quality of the products were too poor for use.
Translation: The First Five Year Plan--1928 "Fantasy, delirium, utopia!"
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Subjunctive question: If Stalin had not establish a Command economy for the Soviet Union, or perhaps had imposed rules that might have prevented its failure, how would this have impacted the overall success of Communism in Russia?
"A five-year industrial plan which sets out to defy the sense of proportion, which drives towards an objective 'regardless of cost,' as Moscow has often proudly boasted, is really not a plan. It is a gamble."
- The New York Times, 1932. |