The Five-Year plans When Stalin was given power from the party progress in 1927 it marked an end to the NEP and the beginning of the era of socialist five-year plans. First 5 year plan - Had staggering economic objectives. Total industrial output was to increase by 250%, agricultural production to increase by 150%, and 1/5 of the peasants in the Soviet Union were scheduled to give up their private plots and join socialist collective farms. In 1931 Stalin said "No …showed first 75 words of 3641 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3641 total…general peace treaty, bringing an end to world war two and the cold war that had followed. September 1991 - US and Soviet Union agreed to scrap significant portion of their nuclear weapons (Bush and Gorbachev). Bush also cancelled the around-the-clock alert status for American bombers outfitted with atomic bombs. Gorbachev followed suit. For the first time in 4 decades, Soviet and American nuclear weapons were no longer standing ready to destroy capitalism, communism and life itself.