Second Five Year Plan
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- Created on: 21-03-14 21:35
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- Second 5 Year Plan
- INDUSTRY
- Not as successful as the first FYP...targets were not met in coal and oil
- Heavy Industry another main focus
- Fear of exile, no one criticised plans or targets
- Lying continued
- Higher scarcity of resources
- Broken machinery stayed unfixed which led to a fall in productivity
- Steel production tripled due to Magnitogorsk
- Incentive scheme was devised to boost productivity
- Targets were more realistic as a reward for finishing the first plan ahead of schedule
- Not as successful as the first FYP...targets were not met in coal and oil
- PREPARING FOR WAR
- Defence spending rose from 4% of government expenditure in 1933 to 17% in 1937
- STANDARD OF LIVING
- An effort was made to improve living conditions between 1934-36
- Policy stopped in response to German rearmament
- PREPARING FOR WAR
- Defence spending rose from 4% of government expenditure in 1933 to 17% in 1937
- PREPARING FOR WAR
- Policy stopped in response to German rearmament
- Many new houses built during plan had no running water or sewerage
- Not a single bath house for 650,000 people in Liubertsy District of Moscow
- An effort was made to improve living conditions between 1934-36
- TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICA-TION LINKS
- First lines of Moscow Metro completed in 1935
- Moscow-Volga Canal completed between 1932-37
- Peasant Support
- Moderation of anti-Kulak policies were suggested
- 1934- Peasants allowed small plots of land to farm privately
- Shortages of essential items
- 1931- Leather Shortage
- Queues of 6,000 recorded outside shoe shops
- High prices
- Consumer goods were given up to produce military resource
- Queues of 6,000 recorded outside shoe shops
- 1931- Leather Shortage
- INDUSTRY
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