... was "a five-year plan of building a socialist society" (Stalin 64). This plan included tremendous increase in heavy industrialization, the process of collective-farm and state-farm movement, and, consequently, the destruction of capitalist ownership (Stalin 63-64). Stalin went to argue that the Five-Year Plan expressed itself in a "determined offensive of socialism" against capitalism in both areas of town and country (Stalin 60). As a result of the offensive of socialism, an egalitarian society within the Soviet Union could be achieved. Thus, the Five-Year Plan was a practical implementation of Marxist theories of socialism to Russian circumstances, and it was effective in mobilizing the Russian masses to work toward industrialization and collectivization. Although the Communist party's appeal to pursue the Five-Year Plan was effective in the attempt to mobilize the Russian citizens to work toward industrialization and collectivization in the U.S.S.R., the controversy lies in the sincerity of the appeal. Was ...

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