What was the purpose of the five year plans?

Answer 1

The purpose was to promote economic development by rapidly industrializing the Soviet economy in order to turn it into an industry based one as opposed to an agricultural based one. There also were provisions for increasing agricultural output by the collectivization of individually operated farms.

The industrialization was successful, but the collectivization did not increase output as much as was hoped. In fact, thousands upon thousands of peasant farmer starved to death because their grain was confiscated and used to fund the industrialization part of the plans.
to industrialise Russia. the 1st FYP was focused on heavy industry. 2nd also on heavy industry. 3rd swaped to war weapons and war equipment. thiis however was stopped before the 5 years were up due to the start of ww2.
When Stalin was ruling in Russia, he put to work two five year plans to industrialize the, then know as, industrially backward Russia. The first one(1928) was completed in four year, the second one was not as successful.

What does five year plan mean?

The five Year Plan (FYP) builds upon existing strategies to delineate key goals, objectives, and tasks aimed at improving an institution, government, or organization.

However, many organizations such as Educational facilities, corporations, hospitals, businesses, unions, societies, and clubs utilize the FYP to meet a set of goals and desired outcomes. See the Related Link below.

Answer 2

Stalin who made the five year plans had many aims, the basic ones were to maintain in power, to industrialize Russia, to make Russia like the other modern European countries (Britain, France etc.), to make Russia a completely Communist state and finally to spread communism to the rest of the world. Of course he didn't succeed in all these aims and many times the decisions he took went against his own ideology but be did that in order to achieve another more important aim.