Five year plans
- Created by: Mubanga Kauseni
- Created on: 05-06-19 09:36
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- First five year plan (1928-1932)
- Aims
- Increase production by 300%, develop heavy industry (coal, iron, steel, oil)
- Boost electricity production by 600%
- Double the output of light industry such as chemicles
- Strengths
- Electricity trebled, coal and iron doubled, new railways were built
- Propaganda was a drive to gain enthusiasm, it was a success
- Weaknesses
- Targets for light industry were not met, food and house building were neglected, high quotas, too much enthusiasm. Smaller industries lost out
- Extremly overambitious, none of the targets were actually met. The great depression meant that USSR couldn't export much
- Aims
- Second five year plan (consolidation plan) 1933-1937
- Aims
- Priority on heavy industry, increase coal, iron, steel and oil. Develop transportation links between cities
- More focus on rearmament
- Strengths
- Heavy increased, Moscow metro was created, the Dam was also created. Electricity and chemical prod increased rapidly.
- Coal increased from 36 mil tonnes to 130 mil tonnes, oil from 2 mil tonnes to 29 mil tonnes.
- Second was a consolidation plan, they were known as the three good years. Pressure was not so intense. Food and rationing ended
- Families had more disposable income.
- Weaknesses
- Oil production failed to meet its targets
- Low rise in customer goods. Emphasis on quantity rather than quality
- Aims
- Third five year plan (1938-1941)
- Aims
- Focus on armament increased as a threat of invasion became real
- More emphasis on heavy industry
- Stengths
- Strong growth in Machinery, growth in armament.
- Weaknesses
- Emphasis on rearmament meant that oil and steel failed to meet their targets
- Many industries were short of raw material, lack of good managers
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