Word: piatiletka
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What Stalin did last week was twofold: 1) He announced the program for 1932, fourth year of the first Piatiletka (FiveYear Plan). By the end of this year the first Five-Year Plan will have been completed in four years. 2) He outlined the second Five-Year Plan, to begin January 1933. That Stalin could assume the first Plan completed nobody denied, for if Dictator Stalin says the first Five-Year Plan is a success it must be, for Russians, a success...
...even Russians know that the Piatiletka lagged in 1931. Transport, steel, iron, coal, the general productivity of Russian labor all failed to fulfill schedules. To make up for lost time Russia will spend this year 21 billion rubles ($10,700,000,000), nearly one-third more than in 1931. Half of this sum will be spent for industrial development. For agriculture 4,400,000,000 rubles (21% more than in 1931) is provided. For transportation there will be 3,300,000,000 rubles (22.4% increase). To fulfill its coal schedule Russia must produce 90 million tons, 31,400,000 more...
...Second Piatiletka. Since last summer the Caspian (State Planning Commission) has been studying, planning, replanning a program for the years 1933-37. Last week on the eighth anniversary of the death of Bolshevism's sainted Lenin, its work was done. Author of the plan was Gosplan Chairman Valerian Kuybyshev, onetime chairman of the Supreme Eco-omic Council, who looks like an Italian tenor. Sang...
...burden of the first Five-Year Plan has fallen most heavily lately on the bulky shoulders of Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze, chairman of the Supreme Economic Council until three weeks ago, the weight of the second Piatiletka will be carried mostly by a hitherto minor figure in Russian industry, Isidor E. Liubimov, onetime Deputy Commissar of Trade and delegate to the London wheat conference last spring. In preparation for the new plan, the Supreme Economic Council was recently reorganized into three separate departments?Heavy Industry, Light Industry and Lumber (TIME, Jan. 18). Commissar Liubimov will have the stupendous task of providing Russia...