What Were Stalin's 5-Year Plans?

The early years of Joseph Stalin's leadership of the Soviet Union saw enormous changes from the years of Lenin. A major change was in the economic policy of the communist party. Stalin moved away from the New Economic Policy and created a series of five-year plans aimed at modernizing the Soviet Union to match its western counterparts. There were some extremely nasty parts to the effort, and this is the story of how his plans worked out.

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