Objectives: Continue increasing heavy industry, develop Russia's infrastructure, increase production of consumers goods and improve working and living conditions.
Strengths: Production levels continued to increase, steel production trebled, improvements made in transportation, some improvements for workers in terms of bread rationing ending and rise in wages, defence spending rose from 4% to 17% between 1933-1937.
Failures: Frequent shortages of vital goods like coal, leading to factoies hoarding, living and working conditions still very poor, shortages of consumer goods still common 6,000 waited in Leningrad for shoes.
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