reactions to 5 year plan
- Created by: Caitlinmaskell
- Created on: 19-05-19 16:20
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- Reactions to 5 year plan
- positive
- many party members pleased to see radical social change and end to NEP compromises
- propaganda had a considerable impact. urban workers hoped for better employment prospects and higher living standards
- many poor peasants were led to believe they would benefit from further land reform and introduction of modern methods
- negative
- Stalin authorised higher wages for skilled workers, some worried this would create diff classes w\in the proletariat
- the harsh imposition of collectivisation and a bigger focus on industrial over agriculture worried that there would be food shortages
- central planning was regarded as a high risk gamble
- positive
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