1.4 The Five Year Plans

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Who drew up targets to be met? State Planning Committee: Gosplan
What year were the first five year plans drawn up? 1928
What were the targets for expansion? Heavy industry
What were the sectors set to grow? Iron Production Coal Production Electric Power
Were the targets met? No but they were impressive
What date parameters was the seconds Plan? 1932-7
Was it successful? How successful? Yes Many sectors doubled production
What did it place more emphasis on? Consumer goods (shoes/clothes)
What was set up beyond the Urals? Why? Tank factories Because Hitler was strengthening Germany
When did the third plan begin? 1937
What was it interrupted by? The purges
What happened in 1941? The Germans invaded
What did the plan continue to emphasise? Military expansion
What did workers get if they exceeded their targets? Prizes
What didn't absentees get? Rations
What encouraged people to work hard? Propaganda about making the world or the Soviet Union great
What was introduced to stop workings moving from job to job? Internal passports
Describe living conditions Bad. Huge apartment complexes built with just a room for each family
What was free to the families? Cheap entertainment, education and health care
What were in Siberia for those who did not want to work there? Hundreds of labour camps
The results of the Five Year Plans were... Why? ...spectacular By 1939 the USSR had become Europe's second industrial power behind Germany
Industrialisation produced... urbanisation
What percentage of Russians lived in cities by 1940? 30%
What were the three main features of Stalin's economic policy? 1. No private property 2. Farming was on huge state-owned collective farms 3. Centrally planned economy
What percentage of Russians were illiterate by 1940? 15%
How was university access controlled? Exam results and political views
Did students have a choice of career? No
What were artists told to produce? "social realism" celebrating achievements of socialism
What did Stalin call what we introduced in 1936? "the only throughly democratic Constitution in the world"
What did it mean? O18's could vote for Congress every four years
Who could only put up candidates? Communist Party
What kind of state was Stalin's Russia? Totalitarian
Who spied on everyone? The secret police (NKVD)
What did Stalin cultivate? A Cult of Personality
How were history books re-written? To emphasise his role in 1917 revolution
What about his image? It was everywhere and propaganda encouraged Russians to see him as their protector and revere him almost as a god
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