Fourth Five-Year Plan
Soviet history
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effect on Ukraine
- In Ukraine: The last years of Stalin’s rule
The fourth five-year plan, as in the prewar years, stressed heavy industry to the detriment of consumer needs. By 1950, Ukraine’s industrial output exceeded the prewar level. In agriculture, recovery proceeded much more slowly, and prewar levels of production were not reached until the 1960s. A…
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history of Cold War
- In 20th-century international relations: The end of East–West cooperation
The new Five-Year Plan, announced at the start of 1946, called for continued concentration on heavy industry and military technology. The war and victory, said Stalin, had justified his harsh policies of the 1930s, and he called on Soviet scientists to overtake and surpass Western science. Soviet…
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