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The first two Five-Year Plans laid the foundation
of the Soviet industrial and military might |
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Rapid urbanisation: between 1926 and 1939 the
overall percentage of the urban dwellers grew from 17.7 to 32.7
percent |
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Labour enthusiasm and "socialist emulation" (Aleksei
Stakhanov) |
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9,000 large-scale industrial plants were built in
1928-1941 |
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Mass production of aircraft, lorries, cars,
tractors, combine harvesters, synthetic rubber, etc. |
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Industrial production grew at the average annual
rate of 10-16 percent |
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By 1937 the USSR was second only to the United States in its gross
industrial output (in 1913, fifth place) |
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By the start of the World War II Soviet Russia had been transformed
from an agrarian country into an industrial one |
