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Five-Year Plan

The human cost of Soviet five-year plans

In 1927-1928, the USSR hastily started industrialization by introducing five-year plans that were meant to boost the economy. The plans placed an unbearable burden on the USSR’s people. How were the first five-year plans carried out and what was the human cost?

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Prof. Palmer October 19, 2020 1930s, Daily Life, Five-Year Plan, Stalin in the News

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