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=== Results of the Five-Year Plans ===
The First Five-Year Plan (1928-1932) was a huge success. 

Marketable grain increased from 500-600 billion poods when individual farming predominated, to 1,200-1,400 million poods when collective farms covered 70% of arable land.<ref name=":2">Stalin, The Results of the First Five Year Plan. https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1933/01/07.htm</ref>

Some targets were even surpassed. The national income grew by 85%. Wages of workers in large-scale industry grew by 67%, overfulfilling by 18%. The social insurance fund grew by 292%, overfulfilling by 111%. Public catering facilities grew to cover 70% of workers, overfulfilling by 500%.<ref name=":2" />

The Second Five Year Plan worked wonders in building industry, which would save countless lives during WWII. High growth continued with no regard for the Great Depression.

{| class="wikitable"
|+Volume of Industrial output compared with 1929 (1929=100)<ref name=":3">Stalin, Report on the Work of the CC to the 18th Congress of CPSU. https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1939/03/10.htm</ref>
!
!1929
!1934
!1935
!1936
!1937
!1938
|-
|USA
|100
|66.4
|75.6
|88.1
|92.2
|72.0
|-
|Britain
|100
|98.8
|105.8
|115.9
|123.7
|112.0
|-
|France
|100
|71.0
|67.4
|79.3
|82.8
|70.0
|-
|Italy
|100
|80.0
|93.8
|87.5
|99.6
|96.0
|-
|Germany
|100
|79.8
|94.0
|106.3
|117.2
|125.0
|-
|Japan
|100
|128.7
|141.8
|151.1
|170.8
|165.0
|-
|USSR
|100
|283.3
|293.4
|382.3
|424.0
|477.0
|}
[[File:Soviet industry.png|thumb|Industrial output compared with 1929 (1929 = 100)]]


Unemployment was ended in 1931.<ref name=":2" /> Meanwhile, unemployment in capitalist countries hit 30 million in 1933, fell to 14 million in 1937, and rose again to 18 million in 1938.<ref name=":3" /> Despite the needs of their people for material products as basic as clothing and shelter, capitalist countries failed to grow their industries.