The results of the five year plans were in three areas economics, social and political. <Tab/>On an economic plane the five year plans resulted in the soviet economy emphasizing heavy industry. By 1941the USSR had experienced a six-fold increase in coal production and a four-fold increase in steel production. This indicates a success of the five year plans, since the purpose of the five year plans was to industrialize and …showed first 75 words of 511 total…

…showed last 75 words of 511 total…taken away. As for the bourgeois experts, they were excluded because of those less experienced and skilled workers which campaigned against them. <Tab/>In conclusion, the successes of the five year plans were: growth in industrial output, the building of the new industrial cities such as Magnitogorsk and Gorki and a strengthening of party control over the population. While the failures were: poor working condition and no freedom of labour movement.