How Did Joseph Stalin Socialize The Results Of The First Five Year Plan

The Road to Socialism: An Analysis of Stalin’s Speech “The Results of the First Five-Year Plan”
In the span of 11 years, Russia had gone from a nation in the hands of the Tsars to a nation controlled by Joseph Stalin’s Communist Party. Joseph Stalin was a Russian political leader who was the Head of the Communist Party from 1927 until his death in 1953. In 1928, Stalin created the first Five-Year Plan, which aimed to strengthen the USSR by promoting heavy industry, collectivizing agriculture, increasing military defense and establishing a system of state terror. In 1933, Stalin delivered a speech which outlined the goals and achievements of the plan, but covered up the “serious sacrifices” and “excesses” that resulted. Stalin emphasized the

Stalin connects the goals to the outcomes of the plan by using the same language to describe matching aims and policies. For example, in the beginning of the speech he lists out all of the “fundamental task[s]” of the plan, one of which is to “convert the USSR from an agrarian and week country … into an industrial and powerful country … independent of the caprices of world capitalism.” He repeats this word choice to describe how heavy industry has strengthened the economy and has completely solved the issues he set out to resolve. Another example of Stalin’s use of repetition to show the effectiveness of the plan is when he describes the party’s achievements in “the sphere of industry.” He lists out all the different industries the country has entered since the plan took effect. Every time he lists an industry, he repeats the phrases “we did not have” and “now we have.” In describing the U.S.S.R’s position in electricity and oil & coal output, he says that the country was “last on the list” but is now “among the first.” The repetition brings out the broad spectrum of issues addressed by the plan and how effective it has been in strengthening the Russian