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Flashcards by Izzy Noone, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Izzy Noone
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| Question | Answer |
| When was the first Five Year Plan approved? | Apri 1929 but backdated to 1928 |
| What was actual production for coal in the 1927 to 1928 period? | 35.4 million tonnes |
| What was target production for coal in the 1927-1928 period | 75 million tonnes |
| What was actual production for oil in the 1927-28 period? | 11.7 million tonnes |
| What was target production for oil in the 1927-28 period? | 22 |
| What did the plans focus on? | Heavy industry |
| How much did they want to increase production by? | 300% |
| What did development focus on? | Coal Iron Steel Machinery |
| How much did they want electricity production to increase by? | 600% |
| How much time did the first five year plan take according to Stalin? | Four years but targets were not actually met |
| Why did the first five year plan fail to achieve targets? | Not enough skilled workers Not enough central coordination Smaller industrial works and workshops failed to keep up in completion targets in comparison to larger factories |
| What did the second Five Year Plan give more attention to? | Consumer goods |
| Give the dates for the second Five Year Plan. | 1933-1937 |
| When were the "three good years"? | 1934-1936 |
| When was the Moscow Metro opened? | 1935 |
| When was the Volga Canal opened? | 1937 |
| What happened to electricity production and the chemical industries? | They grew rapidly |
| What happened by 1937? | The Soviet Union was virtually self-sufficient in metal goods and machine tools |
| How did the focus of the plan change in 1936? | It focused more on rearmament |
| What percentage of GDP was rearmament spending in 1937? | 1937 (from 4% of GDP in 1933) |
| Did oil production meet its target? | No |
| Was there any considerable increase in consumer good production? | No- despite some expansion in footwear and consumer goods. |
| When was the third Five Year Plan? | 1938-42 |
| What did the third Five Year Plan focus on? | Focused on the needs of the defence sector because of the threat of Nazi Germany to the USSR. The plan was disrupted by 1941 because of the approach of war. |
| What were the aims? | Renewed emphasis on the development of heavy industry Promote rapid rearmament Complete the transition to Communism |
| How much did spending increase between 1938 and 1940? | It doubled |
| What happened to steel production? | It stagnated |
| What was the biggest problem during the third Five Year Plan? | Not enough managers, specialists or technicians because of Stalin's purges. |
| What other problems were there at this time? | Hard Winter in 1938 Plan was disrupted and finished early because of the German invasion of 1941 |
| Who were the Stakhanovites? | A movement that emerged after Aleksei Stakhanov, a coal miner in the Don Basin, cut an extraordinary 102 tonnes of coal with his pneumatic pick in 5 hours and 45 minutes. That amount of coal was expected to take 14x as long to collect. |
| What happened to Aleksei? | He received rewards and medals and competitions were created to emulate him |
| What could happen to managers if they failed to meet their targets? | They could be accused of "wrecking", put on trial, imprisoned and executed. |
| By 1935, what percentage of women constituted the workforce? | 42% |
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