The Second Five-Year Plan page from book, 1934, 220 x 320 mm
(shown rotated 90º cw), (I.C. 10.3) | read more... Although the
majority of materials produced by the IZOSTAT Institute were for
use within the USSR, it also published items for the purposes of
overseas propaganda. The image above is taken from The Second
Five-Year Plan in construction (1934), an English-language book
that contains a translation of the 'resolution of the XVII
congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on the
reports of comrades Molotov and Kuibyshev about the Second Five-
Year Plan of development of the national economy of the USSR
(1933-1937)', together with forty-five IZOSTAT charts. These
charts not only record the achievements claimed for the First
Five-Year Plan (1928-32) but also what would be achieved over
the next three years in the Second Five-Year Plan. This visual
statement of future success was a typical feature in IZOSTAT
charts. In the image above we can see the proposed increase in
places in urban and rural cr