When the former Soviet Union formulated its first five-year plan, it was the early days of Stalin's administration. At that time, when the former Soviet Union formulated the five-year plan, the main consideration was how to transform an agricultural society with internal troubles and foreign invasion into an industrial society. Therefore, the first two five-year plans of the former Soviet Union were mainly an important means to transform a poor and weak agricultural country into an industrialized country by using a powerful national autocratic machine. Mainly the product of socialist planned economy.

The purpose of Roosevelt's New Deal is to consolidate and develop capitalism and overcome the disadvantages of liberal capitalism. Mainly within the framework of capitalism.

What they have in common is that they all use strong centralization to safeguard their national interests. Roosevelt was similar to the five-year plan to some extent, but in the end Roosevelt's New Deal was to develop state monopoly capitalism. The five-year plan is to develop the socialist planned economy.