Mahija Mogalipuvvu
Thesis Statement: Though triumphant for the economy and his goals of communism and power, Stalin’s five-year plans caused many hardships and losses and was an abominable tragedy for the people.
Annotated Bibliography
Primary Sources
Feigin. "Collectivization of Livestock." Received by Ordzhonikidze, 9 Apr. 1932.
Revelation of the Russian Archives, Library of Congress. Letter. The Library of Congress
The correspondence to Ordzhonikidze, Stalin’s crony is a part of the Library of Congress, the largest research library in the world with millions of volumes since 1800. This letter concerns the calamitous consequence of the famine sweeping through the Soviet during the time and the issues at the Kolkhozes, collective farms. Also, it compares the quick-growing developments to the vast number of deaths inflicted by the Five Year Plan. This letter will solely inform me of the famine and its role or lack thereof in Stalin’s decisions.
Vital Speeches of the Day, vol. 12, no. 10, Mar. 1946, p. 300. EBSCOhost,
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Vital Speeches of the Day is a reputable magazine that presents speeches in full like this transcript of Joseph Stalin’s election address which was delivered over the radio to the public at the time. Stalin lays out his plans for the future in regards to the post-war world and his past accomplishments with five-year plans. He prides his past three five-year plans and states them as the sole cause of their “material potentialities”. This work will be vital to my research as it will help me understand Stalin’s perspective and his reasoning for instating the Five Year Plans including his ideas and goals.
Secondary Sources
Cherfas, Teresa. “Reporting Stalin’s Famine.” Kritika: Explorations in Russian &
Eurasian History, vol. 14, no. 4, Fall 2013, pp. 775–804. EBSCOhost,
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This well-known academic journal of Russian and Eurasian history, Kritika publishes unique pieces about their past. This article accounts Gareth Jones’, the man who exposed the Soviet Union’s famine, true story. The case study directs attention toward the cause of the famine, Stalin’s first Five Year Plan which included the collectivization of agriculture. This source will increase my understanding in terms of Stalin’s first Five Year Plan causing widespread famine and the public losing their natural right of land.
Graham, Loren R. “Red Elephants. (Cover Story).” Technology Review (00401692), vol. 96, no.
8, Nov. 1993, p. 26. EBSCOhost,
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Loren R. Graham, an established historian who has been nominated for the National Book Award for History and has won the Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada, has taught and published at taught and published at Indiana University, Columbia University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard University. His cover story provides details of two projects of Stalin’s earlier Five Year Plans, Magnitogorsk and the White Sea-Baltic Sea Canal and the labor involved to make these constructions.
Pohl, J.Otto, et al. “‘In Our Hearts We Felt the Sentence of Death’: Ethnic German Recollections
of Mass Violence in the USSR, 1928-48.” Journal of Genocide Research, vol. 11, no. 2/3,
June 2009, pp. 323–354. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1080/14623520903119035.
Jonathan Otto Pohl is a writer and a historian who has written numerous articles about the USSR, and the author of “Stalinist Penal System: A Statistical History of Soviet Repression and Terror, 1930-1953” and “Ethnic Cleansing in the USSR, 1937-1949”. This article details the injustice and violence directed by racism toward ethnic Germans as they were associated with Nazi Germany. They also focused on their misery such as being in “eternal exile” of ethnic Germans, the deportation, persecution, and assassination of those who resisted the Soviet regime. This article will help me identify the extremities and the causes of such hardships the people had to endure due to the Five Year Plan.
Rathbone, Mark. "Stalin and the First Five-Year Plan." Hindsight, Jan. 2005, p. 14+. Student
Resources in Context,
http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A127937437/GPS?u=prin24068&sid=GPS xid=dbc46d3. Accessed 5 Nov. 2018.
Hindsight is a journal for those looking to learn more about a variety of topics, especially history in the twentieth century. Rathbone choices to focus on the positive aspect of the First Five Year Plan as he elucidates the aims and achievements. Also, he explains the positive consequences resulting from the First Five Year Plan. This article’s focus on the achievements of the Five Year Plan will guide me to analyze the growth in their economy and industries.
“Stalin Introduces the First Five-Year Plan in the Soviet Union.” Great Events, vol. 2, Salem
Press, 1999, p. 253. EBSCOhost,
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Salem Press, an acclaimed publishing company, puts out reference materials about history, literature, sciences, and health. In this chapter, they outline the ambitious goals of Stalin and his Five Year Plans and the backlash he faced as he pushed much too far, much too quickly. This chapter also characterizes Stalin and defines his personal goal of power. This information can help me understand Stalin’s reasons behind his Five Year Plans.
Stacy, Robert. “Soviet Five Year Plan.” Encyclopedia of the Early 20th Century (1900 to 1950),
Facts On File, 2016. History,
online.infobase.com/Auth/Index?aid=17452&itemid=WE53&articleId=246125.
The Encyclopedia of the Early 20th Century(1900 to 1950) is known to be factual and a common source of basic information as they have published various encyclopedias with different time periods. This encyclopedia entry thoroughly explains the timeline and the chronological order of the Five Year Plans. This encyclopedia entry served as a basis of my understanding of Five Year Plans and their purpose which furthered my research by learning the actual intent of them.