WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In the Soviet Union the first Five-Year Plan (1928–32), implemented by Joseph Stalin, concentrated on developing heavy industry and collectivizing agriculture, at the cost of a drastic fall in consumer goods. The second Five-Year Plan (1933–37) continued the objectives of the first.

Detailed explanation-2: -Why did Stalin want to increase industrial production in the Five Year Plans? Stalin wanted to increase industrial production because he wanted to modernize the soviet state and to catch up to the other countries.

Detailed explanation-3: -The primary goal of the plan was to turn the Soviet Union from a mostly agricultural into an industrialized country. The secondary goal was collectivization of agriculture which was supposed to aid in industrialization. One of the reasons for the plan’s launch in 1928 was the grain shortage of 1927-1928.

Detailed explanation-4: -By 1952, industrial production was nearly double the 1941 level ("five-year plans"). Stalin’s five-year plans helped transform the Soviet Union from an untrained society of peasants to an advanced industrial economy.