Great Break (USSR)

<p>The Great Turn or Great Break  was the radical change in the <a href="/facts/Economy_of_the_USSR/6yrXD06N">economic policy of the USSR</a> from 1928 to 1929, primarily consisting of the process by which the <a href="/facts/New_Economic_Policy/g9lYMSIr">New Economic Policy</a> (NEP) of 1921 was abandoned in favor of the acceleration of <a href="/facts/Collectivization_in_the_USSR/h845mlpB">collectivization</a> and <a href="/facts/Industrialization_in_the_USSR/YUdIaTEg">industrialization</a> and also a  <a href="/facts/Cultural_Revolution_in_the_Soviet_Union/Dsb8QMnA">cultural revolution</a>. The term came from the title of <a href="/facts/Joseph_Stalin/SHtxGyQn">Joseph Stalin</a>'s article "Year of the Great Turn" ("Год великого перелома: к XII годовщине Октября", literally: "Year of the Great Break: Toward the 12th Anniversary of October") published on November 7, 1929, the 12th anniversary of the <a href="/facts/October_Revolution/5q9GlMv9">October Revolution</a>. David R. Marples argues that the era of the Great Break lasted until 1934.: 102 
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