FIRST 5YP
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- Created on: 17-04-17 10:58
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- First Five Year Plan, 1928-32
- Nature of first plan
- Planned economy
- Focus on heavy industry-coal, iron, oil and steel
- Industries produced raw materials-needed for economic development
- Many peasants had no experience in industry
- Successes of 5YP
- Production
- Grew 14% a year during plan
- Output exceeded NEP
- Social mobility
- Problems in countryside-growing urbanisation
- City populations x3
- Gov invested in education and technology
- Production
- Failures of 5YP
- Quantity and quality
- Production increased-targets not reachable
- Focused on quantity rather than quality
- Pressure on managers-many lied to avoid punishment
- Living Standards
- 7 day working week
- Consumer goods became scarce
- No heating or sanitation many places
- Black market
- Abolishment of free market
- Black market set up to sell vodka, cigarettes and food
- Slave labour
- Peasants sent to labour camps
- Quantity and quality
- Nature of first plan
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