New Russia's Primer: The Story of the Five-Year Plan

by M. Ilin

The Five-Year Plan is a project: not of one factory, but of two thousand four hundred factories. And not only of factories, but also of cities, of electric stations, of bridges, of ships, of railroads, of mines, of state farms, of rural communes, of schools, of libraries. It is a project for the rebuilding of our whole country, and was prepared, not by one man of by two men, but by thousands of trained persons. To the work of building came not tens, but millions of workers. All of us will help to build the Five-Year Plan.

The plan was first discussed in December, 1927, at the Fifteenth Congress of the Communist Party.

On the 1st of October, 1928, its fulfillment was begun.

And before the end of 1929 it became clear that the plan will be achieved, not in five years, but much more quickly.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Russia

165 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1931

Reviews

[David Fabijan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Kaj lahko socializem naredi za vas in vi za socializem? To čudovito delo sovjetske propagande iz 30ih let dvajsetega stoletja vam odgovori na to in mnoga podobna vprašanja.

Zakaj so imeli dinozavri glupe glave? Kako to da so police in zavese sovražnik ljudstva in napredka? Kako zmanjšati razdaljo med Moskvo in Sibirijo za polovico? Koliko miši morate uloviti, da boste polnovredno sodelovali v petletki? Na ta in še mnoga druga vprašanja v svojem zanesenem slogu odgovarja inženir M Iljin.

Originalni prevod Ivana Vouka pa k izvirniku doda še nekatere slogovne posebnosti, ki bi sicer povzročile zgražanje vsake osnovnošolske učiteljice slovenščine, a lepo poudarijo duh časa v katerem je bila knjiga napisana. Zato le odprite in poskušajte razumeti zakaj so sovjetske metalurgične tovarne proizvajale droge.

Celotno delo je dostopno v novo prepisani obliki na naslovu https://www.dropbox.com/s/oaprvbgibgs... Ne glede na vašo politično usmeritv, se lahko nasmejete ali zamislite nad tem dokumentom svoje dobe.

[Derek · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fascinating to see what these absurd plans really looked like. Maybe no more stupid than corporate or university strategic plans, but much more dangerous to all involved. Arendt has the best description of how managers were obliged to forgo all economic factors as they navigated these plans. Instead, they tried to understand the political logic behind any orders they received. But only the general secretary knew that logic.

[Oma Eagle · Rating 3 out of 5]

1931 edition