Portal:Business and economics/Selected picture/October 2007

The First Five-Year Plan (Five-Year Plan of Russia) was a list of economic goals that was designed to strengthen the USSR's economy between 1928 and 1932, making the nation both militarily and industrially self-sufficient. Launched by Stalin in October 1928 and administered by the Gosplan, the First Five-Year Plan employed tactics such as keeping detailed records on every item manufactured in the nation and shipping it to where it needed to go at the right time. One of the primary objectives of Stalin's First Five-Year Plan was to build up Russia's heavy industry.