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The article I read on the five year plan had a sections where it states that sources need to bee sited explaining why Great Britain and Russia relationships were ending in 1927. I found an entire section on a separate Wikipedia page with sources describing what caused relationship between theses nations to change. "Diplomatic relations between the two countries were severed at the end of May 1927 after a police raid on the All Russian Co-operative Society where after prime minister Stanley Baldwin presented the House of Commons with deciphered Soviet telegrams that proved Soviet espionage activities. In 1929, the incoming Labour government successfully established permanent diplomatic relations."

'''I would like to further expand on the relationship with Great Britain and Russian relations during the 1920's. I noticed on the film the "jolly Fellows" that the Shepard referred to the pigs as English Girls. I think I could find a bit more information that wasn't in this section of the article. Was there a bit of a cold war between Russia and England during this era? I'm looking at purchasing Christoper Andrew's book "Defence of the Realm and using this as a source. I don't think it will qualify as a primary source, I'm not sure if that matters on Wikipedia.'''
 * Christopher Andrew, "Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of Mi5"(London, 2009), p. 155.
 * Jump up^ For an account of the break in 1927, see Roger Schinness, "The Conservative Party and Anglo-Soviet Relations, 1925–27", European History Quarterly 7, 4 (1977): 393–407.
 * Jump up^ Brian Bridges, "Red or Expert? The Anglo–Soviet Exchange of Ambassadors in 1929." Diplomacy & Statecraft 27.3 (2016): 437-452.

Also, in reseaching this topic I found a telegram from May 13 1927 from Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin highlighting in further detail some tension between Great Britain and the U.S.S.R. The telegraph expresses "You will be aware that the General Council has endeavored to promote a more cordial relations between His Majesty's Government and the Government of the U.S.S.R.  In doing this the Gernaral Concil has been animated by the knowledge that the absence of such a close relationship is a serious menace not only to the preservation of peace between the two countries, but also to the peace of the world."

Did this really cause England and Russia to nearly go to war? It appears that they resumed diplomatic relations but it's interesting to learn that there were real tensions during this time period. Also, that this information was missing from this section of the five year plan.


 * 1) Christopher Andrew. The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of M15 (Canada,Penguin,2009)
 * 2) https://wdc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/russian/id/7942

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Tevhid Nazmi Basturk

I will contribute to this article by expanding on the content from more sources. I also believe that more information can be found and inserted about the legacy of the First Five Year Plan as currently there is only two lines on the subject and sources I have found provide details as to new cities and various technological and military growth.

Sources:


 * 1) Moving to Moscow: Patterns of Peasant In-Migration during the First Five- Year Plan. David L. Hoffmann. Slavic Review Vol. 50, No. 4 (Winter, 1991), pp. 847-857 Published by: Cambridge University Press
 * 2) Did the Agricultural Surplus Provide the Resources for the Increase in Investment in the USSR During the First Five Year Plan? Michael Ellman. The Economic Journal Vol. 85, No. 340 (Dec., 1975), pp. 844-863 Published by: Wiley on behalf of the Royal Economic Society
 * 3) Financing of New Industrial Cities of Western Siberia in the First Five-year Plan. Sergey S. Dukhanov (Novosibirsk State Academy of Architecture and Arts, Russian Federation)  Bylye Gody. Publisher: Sochi State University
 * 4) The development of sound technology in the Soviet film industry during the first Five-Year Plan. Bohlinger, Vincent. Studies in Russian & Soviet Cinema; 2013, Vol. 7 Issue 2, p189-205, 17p.
 * 5) The First Five-Year Plan and the Geography of Soviet Defence Industry. David R. Stone. Europe-Asia Studies Vol. 57, No. 7 (Nov., 2005), pp. 1047-1063 Published by: Taylor & Francis, Ltd.
 * 6) Shock Workers On the Cultural Front: Agitprop Brigades in the First Five-Year Plan. Mally, Lynn. Russian History, 1996, Vol.23(1-4), pp.263-276. Brill Online Journals

Jennifer Peña

Upon reading about the cause of the Five-Year Plan, I will expand this section with more information and note key events and situations that led the Soviet Union to feel threatened by the West. Could the vulnerability that the Soviet Union felt at this time lead to their desire to gain military might and industrialization to fend off attacks and gain respect as a super power? I will use more sources to answer this.

Some of the sources I have found useful and reliable are:

1.       https://www.britannica.com/topic/Five-Year-Plans

2.       https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/coll.html

3.       https://www.britannica.com/topic/Five-Year-Plans

4.     Hudson, Hugh (2012). "The 1927 Soviet War Scare: The Foreign Affairs-Domestic Policy Nexus Revisited". The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review. 39

5.     Florinsky, Michael (Aug 1953). "Soviet Economic Policies". ProQuest Politics Collection: 93–100

Draft/Edits Jennifer Pena
The Soviet Union entered a series of Five -Year Plans which began in 1928 under the rule of Joseph Stalin. Stalin launched what would be referred as a “revolution from above” to improve the Soviet Union’s domestic policy, more importantly centered around rapid industrialization and secondly the   collectivization of agriculture. His desire was to rid the country of all record that capitalism once existed there under the New Economic Policy.

His plan was to quickly and effectively industrialize the economy of the Soviet Union and to specifically concentrate on heavy industry. His planning was ineffective and unrealistic given the short amount of time given to meet the desired goals.

Stalin’s vision and plan for Collectivization led to the death of millions of people due to famines. People were forced to live in communal apartments. With such living quarters people shared tight spaces with strangers accompanied by many other horrors such as theft and violence.

Stalin’s vision and plan for Collectivization led to the death of millions of people due to famines and the imprisonment of others into labor camps. While some dangerous prisoners were released and forced into labor camps others were now set free in a failing economy with no work and no fair chance of survival and making ends meet. People were forced to live in communal apartments with many other families who also faced the horrors of being hungry, without work and the danger of being robbed for the possessions that they did manage to keep. With such living quarters people shared tight spaces with strangers accompanied by many other horrors such as theft and violence.

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In Cities
A number of streets and squares in major Russian cities are named after the plan, including the First Five-Year Plan Street in Chelyabinsk and Volgograd, and First Five-Year Plan Square in Yekaterinburg. The First Five Year Plan Saw Soviet Cities sharply rise in population. At least 23 million Soviet peasants moved into cities, with Moscow's population rising by nearly 60 percent. A large portion of the Soviet Union's urbanization was due to the deportation of peasants from villages. From 1929 through 1931, 1.4 million peasants were deported into cities.

Cultural
The Five Year Plan saw the expedited transformation of Soviet social relations, nature and economy. The plan's greatest supporters viewed it as the means to change the Soviet Union economically and socially. This change was visibly seen in the role of women in the industrial workplace where rudimentary figures show they comprised 30 percent of the workforce. The prevalence of women within the industrial workplace saw International Women's Day rise in significance in Soviet Culture.

The Five Year Plan's also saw a cultural change in the decline of the Kulak population within the Soviet Union. Members of Agitprop brigands attempted to use the push towards industrialization to isolate peasants from religion and away from the formerly influential Kulak population with performances in which they would deem that issues faced by peasant populations were the faults of the Kulaks. From 1929 through 1931, 3.5 million Kulaks were dispossessed by the Soviet Union and left with no choice but relocation to cities.

State Investment
As a result of the First Five Year Plan, state investment volume increased from 15% in 1928 to 44% in 1932 due to the rise in industry. The First Five Year Plan resulted in the easy access of stable foods bread, potatoes and cabbage across the Soviet Union. Severe drops in agriculture did however result in famine and inflation as agricultural output and livestock numbers in general dropped.

Military
Soviet reports from before the Five Year Plan found that much of the military production capacities in the Soviet Union lied in the country's war threatened Western provinces and notably the city of Leningrad. In 1931 evacuation plans for military production facilities into deeper Soviet territories was drafted beginning a policy that would accelerate and relocate deeper within the Soviet Union during World War 2.

Film Industry
Between 1929 and 1936 the Soviet Union shifted from producing solely silent films to solely sound films. During this period the Soviet Government signed agreements with American, French and German companies to develop sound technology for Soviet cinema.