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What was the impact of the Five Year Plans?
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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
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