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FIVE YEAR PLANS 1928-41
- why were the 5 year plans introduced
- stalin wanted
more exports and
less imports
- ussr needed to become a
superpower to keep up with the
west
- wanted to modernise Russia....
through industrialization he could
modernise agriculture aswell as
industry
- felt that they needed to go
through industrialisation to get
to the socialist state wanted,
which was based on the power
base of the working class
- FIRST 5YP
- focused on heavy industry
- set up the creation
of new super
factories
- magnitogorsk
- successes
- coal 35 million in 1928 to 68million in 1932
- steel from 4 million tonnes to 6 in 1932
- Helped reduce the gap between
themselves and the Western
superpowers
- failures
- 7-10 million people died
- neglect of consumer industries
- production of shoes went down so they
were expensive also there were too
many left boots produced, and not
enough right boots
- decline in working conditions
- 1928-32
- Second 5YP
- focused on production of consumer goods
- also the needs for defence
during the rise of Hitler
- Stalin prioritised communication network
- moscow underground railway
- successes
- stakanovite movement in 1935
stakanov produced over 14 times
the required amount
- the party could promote the
stakhonovite movement through the
media
- workers were inspired or
shamed into working harder
- failures
- overproduction in some areas of
the economy and underproduction in
others
- "everywhere there were
said to be spies
wreckers and
diversionists"
- defence spending increased by 300% 1933-38
- tagets set for workers were increased and non of them were met
- the gap
between
'workers wages'
and 'better
paid
proffesionals'
widened which
displayed
capitalism
- 1932-37
- 3rd 5 year plan
- 1937-41
- particular focus on defence
sector due to growing threat
of nazi germany
- expand the provision of secondary
education throughout the USSR
- successes
- heavy industry grew... defence
and armaments grew rapidly as
resources were diverted to them
- failures
- oil production failed to
reach targets and lead
to a fuel crisis
- consumer industries were neglected again
- manufacturers ran short of materials
- focus on gaining control through propaganda