J. V. Stalin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------Joint Plenum of the C.C. and C.C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.) 1 January 7-12, 1933 The Results of the First Five-Year Plan Report Delivered on January 7, 1933 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------Source: Works, Vol. 13, 1930 - January 1934 Long before the five-year plan appeared on the scene, in the period when we were finishing our struggle against the I The International Significance of the Five-Year Plan … II The Fundamental Task of the Five-year Plan and the Way to its Fulfillment We pass to the question of the essence of the five-year plan. What is the five-year plan? What was the fundamental task of the five-year plan? The fundamental task of the five-year plan was to transfer our country, with its backward, and in part medieval, technology, on to the lines of new, modern technology. The fundamental task of the five-year plan was to convert the U.S.S.R. from an agrarian and weak country, dependent upon the caprices of the capitalist countries, into an industrial and powerful country, fully self-reliant and independent of the caprices of world capitalism. The fundamental task of the five-year plan was, in converting the U.S.S.R. into an industrial country, to completely oust the capitalist elements, to widen the front of socialist forms of economy, and to create the economic basis for the abolition of classes in the U.S.S.R., for the building of a socialist society. The fundamental task of the five-year plan was to create in our country an industry that would be capable of re-equipping and reorganising, not only industry as a whole, but also transport and agriculture—on the basis of socialism. The fundamental task of the five-year plan was to transfer small and scattered agriculture on to the lines of large-scale collective farming, so as to ensure the economic basis of socialism in the countryside and thus to eliminate the possibility of
