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Stalin five-year plan essay grade 11 pdf

The Five-Year Plan (FYPs) was introduced by Joseph Stalin for Soviet industrialization. The series of FYPs were meant to modernize Soviet industry and to match and overtake the other Western powers who by an industrial revolution had managed to modernize their industries and increase their industrial output. The FYPs were implemented to fulfill various purposes. Most of the USSR was very backward in the industrial sector. The USSR had the resources but did not have the infrastructure and industry to exploit them. According to Stalin and his belief in ‘socialism in one country, the Soviet Union should “overtake and outstrip the capitalist countries” .He felt that to spread socialism all over the world, The USSR needed consolidation …show more content…
Thus complete potential was not achieved. Underproduction in many industries was also present due to the lack of resources such as wood. This led to hoarding of goods which lead to a lack of cooperation between many components of the industrial system. No one dared to complain explicitly about the government .Trade unions were powerless after 1917 .Strikes and demands for better pay were prohibited .Any last bit of human rights disappeared under the FYPS .There was no provision for the development of the standard of living of the proletariat in the FYPs. Any demands for an increase in the standard of living were deemed as selfish when a threat of a capitalist invasion of Soviet Russia was looming large. This led to the usual assignment of scapegoats. People accused of ‘sabotage’ were punished in show trials or sent to Siberian work camps. The plans failed to increase the standard of living of the workers. They had to live in five-story tenant blocks where families had to live with their in-laws. Many times four to five families shared a single lavatory and kitchen(usually only a gas ring). This overcrowding led to great

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