Stalin instituted the USSR’s Five-Year Plans as a way to (A) increase foreign trade for the USSR. (B) quintuple the output of electricity and double the output of heavy industry. (C) regain territories given up at the end of World War I. (D) rid the Soviet Union of anyone who opposed its government.

(B) quintuple the output of electricity and double the output of heavy industry.

Explanation:

Joseph Stalin was the ruler of the Communist party in the Soviet Union. He served as the Secretary General of the party. He initiated a Five year plan that started from the year 1928 to the year 1932.

The Five Year plan contained strategies and plans that transformed the Soviet union in a world renowned industrial and economic power.

The plan also improved the industrial farming in the Soviet Union and introduced the concept of collective farming.

The five year plan also help to increase power output five times the original amount and doubled the output of the heavy industry.

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