I BET NOBODY CAN'T ANSWER THIS! ----- IF SO, THEN YOU GET BRAINLIEST AND 15 PTS ------ QUESTION- Stalin introduced ______, which gave government power over industry and food production in the U.S.S.R. a. Communist plans c. Collectivization plans b. Food and Industry Plans d. Five-Year Plans Please select the best answer from the choices provided A B C D

d. Five-Year Plans

Extra: Joseph Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. One of his key policies was the implementation of the Five-Year Plans, which were a series of nation-wide centralized economic goals in the Soviet Union. These plans were designed to modernize Soviet industry and increase agricultural production through the collectivization of farms.

The First Five-Year Plan was introduced in 1928 and focused heavily on rapid industrialization, increasing the production of heavy industry like steel, coal, and machinery. It also set goals for electrification and the development of transport infrastructure. This plan marked a significant shift from the New Economic Policy (NEP) that was designed to revive the economy by allowing some private enterprise.

Collectivization was a part of this economic transformation that specifically related to the agricultural sector. It involved consolidating individual land and labor into collective farms (kolkhozes and sovkhozes) that were supposed to be managed and operated by the peasants collectively. The intention of collectivization was to increase agricultural productivity and produce sufficient grain to feed the growing workforce in the cities, as well as to export in exchange for industrial machinery. However, collectivization often met with strong resistance from peasants and led to a devastating famine, particularly in Ukraine, known as the Holodomor. Despite the hardships, Stalin's Five-Year Plans did succeed in rapidly industrializing the Soviet Union, albeit at the cost of millions of lives.

These economic policies were fundamental to the Soviet Union's development into one of the world's two superpowers and significantly affected the global political landscape during the 20th century, contributing to the tensions of the Cold War era.