Five-Year Plans for the National Economy of the Soviet Union

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The Five-Year Plans for the National Economy of the Soviet Union were a series of centralized, state-directed economic programs that rapidly industrialized the USSR and transformed its agrarian economy under communist rule.


Statements (68)
Predicate Object
instanceOf centralized economic planning system
economic plan series
policy of the Soviet Union
administeredBy Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union
Gosplan
agriculturalPolicy collective farms
state farms
country Soviet Union
economicSystem command economy
planned economy
eighthPlanEndYear 1970
eighthPlanStartYear 1966
eleventhPlanEndYear 1985
eleventhPlanStartYear 1981
endYear 1991
fifthPlanEndYear 1955
fifthPlanStartYear 1951
firstPlanEndYear 1932
firstPlanStartYear 1928
fourthPlanEndYear 1950
fourthPlanStartYear 1946
government Government of the Soviet Union
ideology Marxism–Leninism
communism
influenced Five-Year Plans in other socialist countries
influencedBy New Economic Policy
initiatedBy Joseph Stalin
keySector coal production
defense industry
energy production
heavy industry
machine building
steel production
languageOfName Russian
legalBasis decisions of Communist Party congresses
decrees of the Supreme Soviet
method administrative allocation of resources
centralized target setting
state ownership of means of production
ninthPlanEndYear 1975
ninthPlanStartYear 1971
planningHorizon five years
politicalLeaderDuringFirstPlan Joseph Stalin
purpose collectivization of agriculture
increase heavy industry output
rapid industrialization of the Soviet Union
strengthen military capacity
transform agrarian economy into industrial power
result chronic consumer goods shortages
environmental degradation
rapid industrial growth in the 1930s
significant human costs
RussianName Пятилетние планы развития народного хозяйства СССР
secondPlanEndYear 1937
secondPlanStartYear 1933
seventhPlanEndYear 1965
seventhPlanStartYear 1959
sixthPlanAbandoned 1958
sixthPlanStartYear 1956
startYear 1928
tenthPlanEndYear 1980
tenthPlanStartYear 1976
thirdPlanInterruptedBy World War II
thirdPlanStartYear 1938
thirteenthPlanAffectedBy dissolution of the Soviet Union
thirteenthPlanStatus never fully implemented
twelfthPlanEndYear 1990
twelfthPlanStartYear 1986

Referenced by (9)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Soviet ruble ("Economy of the Soviet Union")
category
Stalin era ("Five-Year Plans")
economicPolicy
New Economic Policy ("First Five-Year Plan")
followedBy
Stakhanovite movement ("Second Five-Year Plan")
historicalContext
Joseph Stalin ("Soviet industrialization")
notableEvent
Joseph Stalin
notableWork
Nikolai Tikhonov ("Soviet economic planning")
participatedIn
Gosplan ("Five-Year Plans of the Soviet Union")
responsibleFor
Five-Year Plans for the National Economy of the Soviet Union ("Пятилетние планы развития народного хозяйства СССР")
RussianName

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