The 5 year plan- Success and Failures

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The 5 year plan- Success and Failures

Advantages

  • FIRST 5 YEAR PLAN :STEEL PRODUCTION INCREASED 1/3
  • ELEC PRODUCTION TREBLED
  • COAL + IRON DOUBLED
  • 20 MILLION SHIFTED PEASANT SHIFT TO PROLETARIAT
  • 1932 INDUTRIAL OUTPUT TREBLED THE USA
  • DECLARED FINISHED IN THE FIRST 9 MONTH
  • INITIAL AIM: He demanded a 110% increase in coal production, 200% increase in iron production and 335% increase in electric power.
  • SECOND 5 YEAR PLAN: BY 1937 SELF SUFFICIENT IN METAL WORK
  • SIZE OF RED ARMY INCREASED
  • THIRD 5 YEAR PLAN : STEEL OUTPUT GREW
  • 1941 INDURSTRIAL OUTPUT INCREASED- ANNUAL GROWTH OF 10% PER YEAR
  • 28% INCREASED IN TANK AND AIRCRAFT- 1930-40
  • 1942 55% NATIONAL INCOME INCOME MILITARY.

Disadvantages

  • FIRST 5 YEAR PLAN: SHORTAGES OF SKILLED WORKERS
  • HIGH WORKER TURNOVER 1930- 100,000 LEFT FROM 120,000 MAGNITOGORSK
  • DISCIPLINE INCREASED- RATION CARDS- 1932 DECREE SACK WORKERS
  • LITTLE GROWTH IN CONSUMER GOODS
  • SECOND 5 YEAR PLAN: CONSUMER GOOD DECLINED
  • OIL PRODUCTION DID NOT MEET TARGETS
  • LIVING + WORKING DECREASED
  • SOCIAL CONTROL AND TERROR INCREASED ( GREAT TERROR 1934-8
  • THIRD 5 YEAR PLAN: OIL NOT MEET TARGETS
  • FACTORIES FACED SHORTAGES OF RESOURCES ( FOCUS ON MILITARISATION)
  • PURGES OF GOSPLAN- SKILLED INDUSTRIAL LEADERS
  • 1941 1/3 INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT IN THE HANDS OF THE GERMANS AND 1/2 POPULATION
  • 61 MILLION AFFECTED BY RATIONING 1941

Evaluation

OVERALL,  THE FIVE YEAR PLANS WERE EFFECTIVE AT ACHIEVING THERE OVERALL AIM THIS BEING THE INCREASE IN INDUSTRIALISATION THAT PAVED THE WAY FOR THE USSR BECOMING A KEY POWER AFTER WW2. HOWEVER, THIS WAS ONLY SEEN IN HEAVY INDUSTRY AND CONSUMER GOODS FACED A HUGE HINDERANCE.

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