08 Soviet Planning and 1, 000 Left Foot Shoes

Lecture 8 Soviet Planning and 1, 000 LeftFoot Shoes J oseph stalin gained complete control of the Soviet Union and its Communist Party in the four years between Vladimir Lenins death in 1924 and the initiation of forced collectivization in 1928. In the years to come, the chief instrument that Stalin would use to exercise his allencompassing control was the fiveyear plan, which attempted to organize all productive activity in the entire Soviet economy. The plan required hundreds of state personnel to calculate all the input and output requirements of the entire economy.