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.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -Under the Second Five-Year Plan (1933-37), the state devoted attention to consumer goods, and the factories built during the first plan helped increase industrial output in general. The Second Five-Year Plan (1933-37) continued the primary emphasis on heavy industry.