who set up a five year plan for the operation of the soviet union
First five-year plan The Soviet Union entered a series of Five -Year Plans which began in 1928 under the rule of Joseph Stalin. Stalin launched what would be referred as a “revolution from above” to improve the Soviet Union’s domestic policy, more importantly centered around rapid industrialization and secondly, the  collectivization of agriculture. His desire was to rid the country of all record that capitalism once existed there under the New Economic Policy.