WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -collectivization, policy adopted by the Soviet government, pursued most intensively between 1929 and 1933, to transform traditional agriculture in the Soviet Union and to reduce the economic power of the kulaks (prosperous peasants).

Detailed explanation-3: -Collectivization-The policy of transferring the own-ership of private farmland to the state. The Soviet state in the 1930s seized land and set up collective farms where workers would produce grain for the state to distribute. The policy proved disastrous for grain pro-duction levels. Kulak-“ Fist” in Russian.

Detailed explanation-4: -The economy was predominantly agricultural, with limited heavy industry. The introduction of railways in the mid 19th century, and their expansion right up until 1915, looked promising, but ultimately they did little to transform or change the economy.

Detailed explanation-5: -The First Five Year Plan resulted in the easy access of staple foods bread, potatoes and cabbage across the Soviet Union. Severe drops in agriculture did however result in famine and inflation as agricultural output and livestock numbers in general dropped.