Organised chaos: Five Year Plans

Five Year Plans

• First Five Year Plan: Oct 1928-Dec 1932
• Second Five Year Plan: Jan 1933-Dec 1937
• Third Five Year Plan: Jan 1938-1941

Reasons for Launching the Five Year Plans:

1) Economic:

The NEP failed to industrialise Russia. E.g. amounts of iron, steel and copper never exceeded the amount produced in Tsarism times.

Improvements in production of crude oil/coal still behind of Germany+France

2) Ideological:

Stalin believed that socialism was only possible in a highly advanced…