Five Year Plans

• Stalin needed to modernise Russia and industrialise it, decided to sell surplus food
• 1927 Advisor's said in order to modernise Russia you mus
• HAVE 250,000 TRACTORS
• OIL FIELDS REQUIRED TO RUN THEM
• POWER FACTORIES TO RUN FARMS

• Industry under state control
• Industry developed planned by the state
• Decisions on what, how much and where this would be produced

-First Five Year Plan: 1922-32

-Second Five Year Plan: 1933-37

-Third Five Year Plan: 1938-41

• Set Targets on what should be met
• Targets unrealistic, could never be met under the improvements
• Emphasis too much on heavy industry e.g. Coal, Oil & Steel

• Although results were impressive they were low when compared with western European standards
• Results had shown a massive increase though

• Still had an emphasis on Heavy Industry
• New Commitments e.g. Communication: Railway Links, and new industry e.g. Chemical

• Emphasis on Weapon Production (Which required the input of heavy industry) as war had been near and Russia weren't prepared for WW2

• Failure to reach targets had led to much criticism as well as humiliation
• Workers couldn't cope under the pressure
• More measures were introduced
• Records had been kept on workers attendance, if poor were accused of
  • Sabotage of the FYP
  • If guilty were sent to work in the harshest areas of Russia, e.g. Siberia or Baltic Sea
• Machinery had been hard to find let alone repair
• Unskilled peasants were hired
• Had no knowledge of machinery

This led to

• Inflation figures on production
• Finished Products had been poor
• Managers were held accountable
• No one was allowed the criticize the plan

• Some paid were more than others (because of their effort in the workforce and their production)
• Stalin was then accused by the Left Wing of betrayal of socialism
• Gap Between Payments Later Increased

• Wages for workers had been incredibly low
• Work Conditions had been extremely dangerous
• Long Hours
• Homes had only been built for the poor