or murdered. He now had full control without any intervention from other liberal or moderate parties. He decided to concentrate on improving military strength and building on improving the Soviet economy, rather than follow Lenin's revolutionary goal of dominating the world (9). In order to obtain the immense amount of money needed to maintain his militia, he began a series of five-year programs, which would force the average farmer to meet a quota by the end of the harvest and then have the state subsidize all of the production (20). This system, aptly named collectivization, reprimanded all of the average worker's liberties and created great suffering during the Stalin regime.
             The motivation behind the five-year plans is pretty evident. Russia had not yet had their industrial revolution and was far behind the other powers of the world. Even Stalin said, "We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or we shall be crushed" (Kuromiya 1). So, that is what Stalin set out to do.
             One of the great achievements many think that Stalin made for the Soviet Union were the Five-Year Plans in industry. This may be true if simply considered superficially, but if one were to look closer it becomes apparent that they were implemented in one of the worst ways in terms of destroying the lives of the everyday Russian. This point will be made after the five-year plans are described, however.
             The First Five-Year Plan was adopted in April 1929 by the Sixteenth Party Conference. Its purpose was to increase Russia's industrial production. On December 31, 1932, the First-Five Year Plan was declared officially completed ahead of schedule. Total employed workforce increased one hundred percent, steel production increased twenty five percent, production of large-scale industry showed an increase of one hundred and eighteen percent, production of machinery and electrical equip...