Why the Five Year Plans were intorduced
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- Created on: 28-02-14 22:24
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- Why the Five Year Plans were intorduced
- Economic motives
- The VSNKh was not effective at improving the factories as they simply replaced the ineffective factories
- Only 50% of grain that had been sold outside of villages in 1913 was being sold in 1926.
- Stalin’s advisers told him that with the modernisation of farming, the Soviet Union would require 250,000 tractors, but by 1927, they only had 7000.
- From 1913 to 1928 oil production had only increased by 26%
- There had only been a 7% increase in the amount of lorries from 1913 to 1928
- From 1913 to 1928 coal production had only increased by 21%
- Social motives
- The Komosol only served to worsen the image of the state
- In 1922, 500,000 were unemployed in the heavy industry sector
- Capitalism was seen as more preferable to communism
- Mir's had a stronger influences over the peasantry than the state did
- Political motives
- In 1927, there was a raid by the British government on the Soviet trade mission in London.
- Foreign capitalist countries assisted the white during the civil war
- . In China communists were attacked by the Kuomintang forces of Chiang Kai Shek
- As the majority of the rank and file communists wanted rapid industrialization, it made sense for Stalin to follow the popular opinion
- Assassination of Pyotr Voykov in 1927
- Stalin was hoping to capitalist on the Wall Street Crash as it would make socialism look successful
- The fact that Russia had still not developed an operational tank by 1928 showed they were still a largely peasant state
- After the defeat of the left Stalin saw his chance to become the undisputed leader the USSR
- The NEP was meant to be a temporary measure
- Economic motives
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