<P> GOELRO plan (Russian: план ГОЭЛРО) was the first - ever Soviet plan for national economic recovery and development . It became the prototype for subsequent Five - Year Plans drafted by Gosplan . GOELRO is the transliteration of the Russian abbreviation for "State Commission for Electrification of Russia" (Государственная комиссия по электрификации России). </P> <P> The Commission and Plan were initiated and supervised by Vladimir Lenin . Lenin's belief in the central importance of electrification to the achievement of communism is represented by his statement that </P> <P> Communism is Soviet government plus the electrification of the whole country . </P>

Communism is soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country