First Five‑Year Plan and Collectivization (1928–1933)

1. Shakhty Trial begins in Moscow

   May 18, 1928Labels: Shakhty Trial, Moscow, Engineers

   • Shakhty Trial

2. First Five-Year Plan officially begins

   Oct 1, 1928Labels: First Five-Year, Soviet Union

   • Five Year Plans
   • Industrialization

3. Sixteenth Party Conference approves plan draft

   Apr 1, 1929Labels: Sixteenth Party, Communist Party

   • Industrialization
   • CPSU History

4. Stalin announces “liquidation” of kulaks

   Dec 27, 1929Labels: Stalin, Kulaks

   • Dekulakization

5. Politburo formalizes dekulakization measures

   Jan 30, 1930Labels: Politburo, Dekulakization

   • Dekulakization

6. Stalin’s “Dizzy with Success” published

   Mar 2, 1930Labels: Stalin, Pravda

   • Pravda text
   • Article summary

7. Turksib railway completed

   Apr 21, 1930Labels: Turksib, Railway

   • Turksib

8. Stalingrad Tractor Plant officially opens

   Jun 17, 1930Labels: Stalingrad Tractor, Tractors

   • VgTZ

9. Kazakh famine begins amid collectivization

   Dec 1, 1930Labels: Kazakhstan, Famine

   • Kazakh Famine

10. Magnitogorsk’s first blast furnace reaches operation

    Mar 30, 1932Labels: Magnitogorsk, Blast Furnace

    • Pravda note

11. “Law of Spikelets” enacted to protect property

    Aug 7, 1932Labels: Law of, USSR decree

    • Holodomor
    • Holodomor Museum

12. Dnieper Hydroelectric Station begins generating

    Oct 1, 1932Labels: Dnieper Hydroelectric, DniproHES

    • DniproHES
    • Nature

13. Blacklisting decree formalizes “black boards”

    Nov 20, 1932Labels: Blacklisting Decree, Black boards

    • Soviet Famine
    • Holodomor

14. Unified internal passport system decree issued

    Dec 27, 1932Labels: Internal Passport, Propiska

    • Passport System

15. First Five-Year Plan ends (as implemented)

    Dec 31, 1932Labels: First Five-Year, Implementation End

    • Five Year Plans
    • First Plan

16. Stalin reports “Results of the First Five-Year Plan”

    Jan 7, 1933Labels: Stalin, Party Plenum

    • First Plan
    • Five Year Plans