Industrialisation
- Created by: Phoebe
- Created on: 29-04-13 22:40
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- Industrialization
- First 5YP 1928-1933
- Stated what but not how - unrealistic
- focused on heavy industry - coal oil steel iron
- Public trials to set examples
- 1928 trial on workers in the Dombass region for anti soviet conspiracy
- Low labour productivity
- Fraud by officials - figures changed to avoid persecution
- Living and working conditions deteriorated
- Rations
- 7 day working week
- new towns/cities built
- Magnitogorsk
- 1/4 million workers built especially
- Magnitogorsk
- Second 5YP 1933-1937
- promised working and living conditions
- Famine (rationing until 1924) and preparation for war stopped this
- defence spending rose from 4% in 1933 to 14% in 1937
- Wages and living standards of industrialization improved
- people had to que all day for shoes
- Famine (rationing until 1924) and preparation for war stopped this
- main focus still heavy industry
- Steel production trebeled
- quantity not quality
- hoarding and fraud
- Transport
- Moscow underground built
- Moscow-Volga canal 1937
- Stakhanovite movement
- Publicity stunt to increase productivity
- claimed over fulfilled by 3%
- Stalins elite given holiday homes and chauffeurs (not communism)
- promised working and living conditions
- Third 5YP 1938-1941
- ended due to WW2
- preparation for war
- double amount of money spended on re-armament since second 5YP
- unstable workforce 1940 internal passport to guarantee a stable workforce
- purges created chaos
- Overall
- 1928 Rural semi industry to 1941 high industry urban
- livinng and working conditions didnt really improve
- Still low labour productivity
- economic remained unstable
- First 5YP 1928-1933
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