STALIN’S REVOLUTION FROM ABOVE The War to Industrialize the USSR – The 5-Year Plans

AIMS OF COMMUNISM Communism & Wealth Russian Communist Economic Planning – Veshenka, Gosplan

The First 5-Year Plan The necessity to industrialize Aim of the 1 st 5- Year Plan Implications of the 1 st 5-Year Plan With shock labor we will secure the prompt delivery of the giants of the Five Year Plan

Workers Contract with the Peasants In this agreement celebrating "socialist competition," the workers of Ivanovo-Voznesensk Textile Factory No. 2 promise to improve their productivity, produce fewer defective goods and stop work absences. In return the peasants of the village of Sel'tso (Kostroma Province) promise to increase their harvest, and improve the quality of flax that the textile workers will use to produce linen

STALIN’S MOTIVES Either we do it, or they crush us. - Joseph Stalin

STALIN’S MOTIVES Stalin’s pipe. – 1930 Liar, Non-party member, Kulak

STALIN’S MOTIVES Stalin’s shift of opinion Counter-revolution Isolation For the technological independence of the USSR

STALIN’S MOTIVES Those who try to attack our country will receive a stunning rebuff to teach them not to poke their pig’s snout in our Soviet garden again! Let’s overcome the class enemy resistance by the socialist’s attack. 1931

The 5-Year Plan in Action First 5-Year Plan Heavy Industry & Light Industry Workers Changes to the Plan The results of the 5-Year Plan have shown that the working class is as capable of building the new as it is destroying the old. - Stalin

WORKER SPIRIT We got so dirty and we were such young things, small, slender, fragile. But we had our orders to build the metro and we wanted to do it more than anything else. We wore our miners’ overalls with such style. My feet were size four and the boots were elevens. But there was such enthusiasm. - Tatyana Fyodorova, Moscow metro worker in the 1930s

5-Year Plan in 4 Years

STALIN & THE NEED FOR SPEED The tempo must not be reduced. On the contrary, we must increase it…To slacken the tempo would mean falling behind. And those that fall behind get beaten. No, we refuse to be beaten! One feature of the history of old Russia was the continual beatings she suffered for falling behind, for her backwardness…

STALIN & THE NEED FOR SPEED Do you want our socialist fatherland to be beaten and to lose its independence? If you do not want this, you must put an end to its backwardness in the shortest possible time…We are fifty to a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they crush us!- Stalin

RESULTS OF THE 5-YEAR PLANS The 1 st & 2 nd Five- Year Plans Outputs of heavyindustry in millionsof tons (planned)1933 (actual) Oil Steel Coal (planned)1937 (actual) Oil Steel Coal

RESULTS OF THE 5-YEAR PLANS Creation of new industrial areas Impressive projects constructed from scratch Inefficiency Human Cost Modernization? The Dneprostroy has been built!

RESULTS OF THE 5-YEAR PLANS What were the results of the Five- Year Plan in four years? – We did not have an iron and steel industry. Now we have one. – We did not have a machine tool industry. Now we have one. – We did not have a modern chemicals industry. Now we have one. – We did not have a big industry for producing agricultural machinery. Now we have one. – Stalin, 1932