GOELRO (Russian: ГОЭЛРО) was the first of Soviet Russia's plans 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" (Russian: Государственная комиссия по электрификации России, romanized: Gosudarstvennaya komissiya po elektrifikatsii Rossii).
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:[1]
Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.
- ^ Vladimir, Lenin (1920). Our Foreign and Domestic Position and Party Tasks. Moscow.
Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country, since industry cannot be developed without electrification.
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