What were stalin's five year plans? question 9 options: plans to convert the country into an egalitarian, communist nation plans to modernize the economy to keep up with the west plans to eliminate weak workers and bad factories that delayed production plans to create more housing, jobs, and schools, for all the people of the country

(B) Plans to modernize the economy to keep up with the west

Stalin called for industrialization of the soviet economy. There was fear of war, which arose in 1927 and this left the soviets feeling a need for rapid industrialization. This would increase Soviet war making policies and potential and also to compete with the west. If war were to break out, the soviets would be fighting some western countries, which were the most industrialized nations in the world.