Third Five-Year Plan 1938-1941
The Third Five-Year Plan
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- Created by: Dracupine
- Created on: 31-03-13 16:58
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- 3rd Five-Year Plan 1938-1941
- Rearmament
- Continued the rearmament that began during the final phase of Second Five-Year Plan
- Did not enter WWII till 1941
- By 1940: 1/3 of Government investment went to the armed forces .
- Double amount invested 1937
- May 1941: German army now had 8 million men, 12,000 tanks, 52,000 guns & 20,000 aircraft.
- Between May & June 1941: 3rd Five-Year Plan came to a premature end
- Central Committee decided the country needed to prepare for war
- Continued the rearmament that began during the final phase of Second Five-Year Plan
- Heavy Industry
- Formed backbone of plan
- Tonnes of........
- Crude Oil
- 1937: 29 million tonnes of crude oil
- 1940: 31 million tonnes of crude oil
- Coal
- Crude Oil
- Decline in production of steel
- Improved as much as possible to help support rearmament
- Problems
- Chaos in Gosplan & Russian industry
- Purges resulted in removal & execution of many experienced industrial managers
- No qualified workers. HUGE effect on indutry
- Removal of moderate group in Politburo in 1936
- Inefficiencies of Plan remained unchallenged
- Stalin reverted to terror to motivate managers to meet targets
- Gulags, purges & execution
- Workers Discipline
- 1940: 'Internal Passport' restricted ability to move from job to job
- Were not able to swap jobs for one with better pay
- 'Quick Sand Society'
- Were not able to swap jobs for one with better pay
- May 1939: Politburo report........
- Amount of time Peasants spent on private land....
- Limited & reduced size of private plots
- Spend more time on production of Government land/ benefits
- Amount of time Peasants spent on private land....
- Increased productivity
- 1940: 'Internal Passport' restricted ability to move from job to job
- Rearmament
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