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five-year plan

Long-term strategic plan for the development of a country's economy. Five-year plans were from 1928 the basis of economic planning in the USSR, aimed particularly at developing heavy and light industry in a primarily agricultural country. They have since been adopted by many other countries.


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Cindy Hahamovitch, "Creating Perfect Immigrants: Guestworkers of the World in Historical Perspective," Labor History 44 (February, 2003): 69-94; Andrea Graziosi, "Visitors from Other Times: Foreign Workers in the Prewar Five Year Plans," in Graziosi, A New Peculiar State: Explorations in Soviet History, 1917-1937 (Westport, CT, 2000), 223-266.
In the Soviet Union they called such systems Five Year Plans, and the last one was off by about four years, 11 months and 29 days.
It used to be easier, when people had three and five year plans.
 
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