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Article evaluation - Five-year plans for the national economy of the Soviet Union
I chose the above Wikipedia article to evaluate and answered the following questions. Evaluating content


 * Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
 * Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?
 * What else could be improved?

I think the 2nd paragraph is distracting and off topic as it moves into other countries who had similar plans. This could be moved down the article instead of at the beginning.

I would add to the beginning the following:

Stalin’s Five-Year Plan was a rebellious shift from Lenin’s New Economic Policy. It was introduced in 1928 aimed to rapidly develop the country. I would add the reasons for his decisions ie..political

= Evaluating tone =


 * Is the article neutral? Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?

I think the tone is good, I didn't see any subjective view points.

= Evaluating sources =


 * Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?
 * Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?

There doesn't seem to be a lot of source citing in the article so, I would these.

The link under Plans did take me to the reference section however, I could not find the book, it appears to be a companion text to a class textbook. It appears to a creditable source and the table of contents does cover the Stalin era. MODULE 4 ASSIGNMET:

Add to Important groups - Article: Socialist realism
Writers’ Congress

Source: John E. Bowlt, ed., Russian Art of the Avant-garde: theory and criticism, 1902-1934 (New York: Viking Press, 1976), pp. 288-290.