<P> Stalin's vision and plan for Collectivization led to the death of millions of people due to famines and the imprisonment of others into labor camps . While some dangerous prisoners were released and forced into labor camps others were now set free in a failing economy with no work and no fair chance of survival and making ends meet . People were forced to live in communal apartments with many other families who also faced the horrors of being hungry, without work and the danger of being robbed for the possessions that they did manage to keep . With such living quarters people shared tight spaces with strangers accompanied by many other horrors such as theft, violence and stripped of privacy . </P> <P> A number of streets and squares in major Russian cities are named after the plan, including the First Five - Year Plan Street in Chelyabinsk and Volgograd, and First Five - Year Plan Square in Yekaterinburg . The First Five Year Plan Saw Soviet Cities sharply rise in population . At least 23 million Soviet peasants moved into cities, with Moscow's population rising by nearly 60 percent . A large portion of the Soviet Union's urbanization was due to the deportation of peasants from villages . From 1929 through 1931, 1.4 million peasants were deported into cities . </P> <P> The Five Year Plan saw the expedited transformation of Soviet social relations, nature and economy . The plan's greatest supporters viewed it as the means to change the Soviet Union economically and socially . This change was visibly seen in the role of women in the industrial workplace where rudimentary figures show they comprised 30 percent of the workforce . The prevalence of women within the industrial workplace saw International Women's Day rise in significance in Soviet Culture . </P> <P> The Five Year Plan's also saw a cultural change in the decline of the Kulak population within the Soviet Union . Members of Agitprop brigands attempted to use the push towards industrialization to isolate peasants from religion and away from the formerly influential Kulak population with performances in which they would deem that issues faced by peasant populations were the faults of the Kulaks . From 1929 through 1931, 3.5 million Kulaks were dispossessed by the Soviet Union and left with no choice but relocation to cities . </P>

A major purpose of five-year plans in the soviet union was to