The five year plan
- Series of plans designed to increase industry and output
- Based on Quota system
- Economic planning was now forced
- Command Economy- Set targets for production
- First was 1928-1933 - Agriculture changes ( Collectivization)
- Main focus on Heavy industry
- Second was 1933-1937
- Too severe And changed in 1934
- Many Party officials revolted against this and nominated a successor to Stalin
- Stalin had him shot (Beginning of the Great purges)
Summary: The five year plan put all industry under state control and all industrial development was planned by the state. The state would decide what would be produced, how much would be produced and where it should be produced. Each industry had a target set for them which they had to meet. The targets were completely unrealistic and they couldn't be met. The emphasis was on industries like coal, oil, iron, steel and electricity.