HISTORY
THE WORLD BETWEEN THE WARS
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heavy industry
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consumer goods
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famine relief
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private landownership
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Detailed explanation-1: -Stalin’s First Five-Year Plan, adopted by the party in 1928, called for rapid industrialization of the economy, with an emphasis on heavy industry. It set goals that were unrealistic-a 250 percent increase in overall industrial development and a 330 percent expansion in heavy industry alone.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1928 Stalin introduced an economic policy based on a cycle of Five-Year Plans. The First Five-Year Plan called for the collectivization of agriculture and the expansion of heavy industry, like fuel extraction, energy generation, and steel production.
Detailed explanation-3: -What were the goals and results of Stalin’s Five-Year Plan? Goals: Improve Russian economy, create a heavy industry, improve transports, improve farms production. Results: Impressive industrialization, improved skills of workers. But living standards remained low.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1928, Stalin launched his First Five-Year Plan to speed up the process of industrialisation in the Soviet Union so that it could compete with output levels in developed capitalist economies.