Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The 5 year plans 1928-38
- Why
- Europe and the USA were far too
modernised. They would "crush" Russia in
10 year if nothing was done
- All the minerals were in
Siberia and the Urals. Too
cold+ uninhabited there
- All the money was with a
pocketful of rich. Rest were poor
- Transport+ communication were poor
- Unskilled + poorly educated workers
- First plan : 1928-33
- Targets
- Double coal and oil
production.
- Triple iron, steel and
electricity production
- New cities like Magnitogorsk and Sverdlovsk
are created in Siberia and the Urals
- Second plan: 1933-37
- Heavy industry still important
- More mining for: lead, tin, zinc..
- New railways and canals
- New Moscow underground
- More agriculture
objects production
- Third plan: 1938-WW2
- Switch to consumer goods
- BUT world war 2 cut it short in 1940
- Facts
- Oil
- From 12 million tonnes to 21 to 29
- =240% increase
- Coal
- 35 million tonnes to 64 to 128
- = 360% increase
- Iron
- From 3 million tonnes to 6 to 14.5
- = 440% increase
- Electricity
- From 5 million kwh to 13.5 to 36
- = 720% increase