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What was the impact of the Five Year Plans?
- Economic
- Positive
- An expansion in heavy industry was introduced with the
production of coal, steel and iron.
- Infastructure was introduced with the establishment of the Moscow metro, Baltic-White
sea canal and Magnitogorsk
- The economy grew by 4-12% every year which was unusual because world
was in great depression and would buy and trade with USSR.
- Negatives
- unrealistic targets made the five year plans poorly planned
- This led to corruption, wastage and bottle necks. An example is the
Shakty trial
- The Five year plans neglected consumer goods and the chemical industry while the
rest of the world was developing their chemical industry
- Skilled managers were purged for not meeting unrealistic targets and therefore
avoided promotions out of fear of being sent to the .
- Political
- Bolshevik party stronger because more people moved to the
cities and became proletarians.
- Social
- Positives
- There was an end to unemployment with women starting to to work
- wages went up and hard workers were rewarded with priviledges.
- workers had enough food
- Negatives
- There was a lack of housing
- real wages were not increased and
the cost of living was high
- Women were assigned low paid and less skilled jobs and still
had to uphold household duties
- There was a climate of fear for all workers
- Ideological
- Negatives
- Promotions and privledges
given to workers gives a class
difference in cities
- The Stakhanovite Movement was propaganda to
encourage workers to try harder
- Peasants were still seen as second class citizens.
- Positives
- More proletarians
- No private profit or businesses
- No class differences
- Military
- Positive
- Weapon factories were built East of the Ural Mountains
to be protected from invasion
- A siege mentality was created
- Negatives
- Weapons did not work becasue of Stalins
infatuation with gigantomania
- One gun between two soilders.
- Stalin's Personal Power
- No opponents
- Able to set his own targets