1. Stalin and the Industrialization of the USSR

2. The First Five Year Plan
Creating a ‘war economy’
Iron, Steel, Oil, and Electricity
The Great Depression was an example of the destructive capitalist system of the West

4. 1928 - 1932 A set of targets rather than an actual plan
Concentrated on heavy industries –coal, oil, steel, and electricity ---’gigantomania’
Factories, dams, power-stations, canals, and whole new cities built ---Magnitogorsk
Falsified production figures
Harsh penalties for failure –’industrial wreckers’
Appalling amount of industrial accidents
‘Homo Sovieticus’

5. Growth

7. Magnitogorsk

8. City of Steel