Stalin’s Five-Year Plans (Rapid Industrialization & Collectivization)

Resource Description

Economic Policy of the USSR

• “War Communism” (1918–1921) 
• New Economic Policy (NEP) (1921-1928)
• Five-year plans (Piatiletki) (1929-1995) 
• Perestroika (1987-1991)

“War Communism” (1918–1921)

• Emergency program during the civil war.
• Forced requisition of grain.  
• Nationalization of all trade and industry. 
• Strict control of labor.
• Confiscation of financial capital. 
• In 1920, Industrial production was 13% and agricultural production 20% of the 1913 figures.