The Results of the First Five-Year Plan

History has shown that the international significance of the five-year plan is immeasurable. History has shown that the five-year plan is not the private affair of the Soviet Union but the concern of the whole international proletariat. Long before the five-year plan appeared on the scene in the period when we were finishing our struggle against the interventionists and were going over to the work of economic construction—even in that period Lenin said that our economic construction was of profound international significance; that every step forward taken by the Soviet Government along the path of economic construction was finding a powerful response among the most varied strata in capitalist countries and dividing people into two camps—the camp of the supporters of the proletarian revolution and the camp of its opponents.