First Five-Year Plan 1928-1932
Sorry but as I find it easier to revise using mindmaps and see all the information I have done an individual mindmap for each of the first 3 Five-Year Plans
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p.s. In advance I apologise for any spelling mistakes, I'm terrible with spelling and when the computer tells me I have made a mistake, it gives me the American spelling!!!
- Created by: Dracupine
- Created on: 30-03-13 19:21
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- Stalin's 1st Five-Year Plan 1928-1932
- Priorities
- Stalin liked heavy industry, over consumer goods as Russia would be able to develop & be ready for invasion.
- Coal, iron & steel over food & clothes
- Less qualifications
- Heavy industry was essential for industrialisation (key in US trade)
- Stalin often visited steelworks & iron foundries
- 1st priority as best trade
- Raw materials
- Stalin liked heavy industry, over consumer goods as Russia would be able to develop & be ready for invasion.
- Success
- Increased productivity caused the Russian economy to grow by 14% annually
- Promote through propaganda
- had been in a depression
- Outperformed any other economic system
- Urban population trebled as peasants moved from the countryside
- Factory work
- Education was reformed and universities were more accessible
- High discipline added in schools as prepared fro work
- 'Proletarian advancement' programme was successful
- 150, 000 'Red Specialists' replaced old less qualified managers 'Bourgeois Specisliats'
- Revolutionised as working class education & can obtain better jobs
- Increased productivity caused the Russian economy to grow by 14% annually
- Failures
- Secret chaotic economy
- Covered with statistics
- Target not met= severe punnishment
- Struggle to meet targets caused inefficiency & low productivity
- low quality, not really usable. Much of it was wasted
- Secret chaotic economy
- Meeting Stalin's Targets
- Many were never met
- Local party officials who didn't meet targets were severely punnished
- Targets were based on quantity not quality.
- Products were not useful
- Some raw materials such as coal were left to decay
- Abolition of the Free Market
- As Russia was a Communist country, Stalin wanted to get rid of the free market where everyone was free to trade with each other
- However, this idea of ablolishing the free market encouraged an illegal black market to forming, becoming widespread.
- People who were caught buying & selling illegally were sent to labour camps (spectators)
- Living and Working conditions
- Workers had bad rations & consumer goods disappeared
- Introduced 7-day working week, so working conditions deteriorated
- If you broke machinery then you would be accused of being a 'Capitalist Saboteur'
- Many unhappy, many avoided work
- these harsh labour disciplines caused increased absenteeism
- Strikes= punishment
- If late punished
- Any negativity imprisoned / punished
- 'White Coal' workers were effectively prisoners who often froze or starved to death as they had no rights
- Priorities
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