First Five-Year Plan and Industrialization in Soviet Russia (1928–1932)

1. Fifteenth Party Congress sets planning direction

   Dec 1, 1927Labels: 15th Party

   • Britannica
   • Industrialization

2. Shakhty Trial signals crackdown on “sabotage”

   May 18, 1928Labels: Shakhty Trial

   • Shakhty Trial
   • Britannica

3. First Five-Year Plan begins (planning period start)

   Oct 1, 1928Labels: First Five-Year

   • Industrialization
   • Britannica

4. Magnitogorsk founded as flagship steel city

   Jan 1, 1929Labels: Magnitogorsk

   • Britannica
   • Harvard UDSCA

5. Sixteenth Party Conference approves plan variant

   Apr 1, 1929Labels: 16th Party

   • Industrialization
   • Britannica

6. Stalin announces “liquidation of kulaks” policy

   Dec 27, 1929Labels: Stalin

   • Dekulakization
   • Britannica

7. Politburo formalizes dekulakization measures

   Jan 30, 1930Labels: Politburo Resolution

   • Dekulakization
   • Britannica

8. Stalin’s “Dizzy with Success” slows collectivization

   Mar 2, 1930Labels: Dizzy with

   • Pravda text
   • Britannica

9. Stalingrad Tractor Plant opens to mechanize farming

   Jun 17, 1930Labels: Stalingrad Tractor

   • Stalin note
   • VgTZ Plant

10. Stalin frames industrial “catch-up” as urgent

    Feb 4, 1931Labels: Stalin Speech

    • Speech text
    • Britannica

11. Menshevik Trial targets economists and planners

    Mar 1, 1931Labels: Menshevik Trial

    • Menshevik Trial
    • Britannica

12. “Law of Spikelets” harshly punishes grain theft

    Aug 7, 1932Labels: Law of

    • Law of Spikelets
    • Holodomor

13. Dnieper Hydroelectric Station begins producing power

    Oct 1, 1932Labels: Dnieper Hydroelectric

    • DniproHES
    • Nature

14. Stalin declares First Five-Year Plan fulfilled early

    Jan 1, 1933Labels: Stalin Declaration

    • Five Year Plan
    • Britannica

15. 1932–33 famine peaks after procurement pressures

    May 1, 1933Labels: 1932 33

    • Holodomor
    • Britannica