Second Five Year Plan

Second Five Year Plan

Priorities:

• Improve the agricultural output:tractors
• Railways
• Increase supply of consumer goods
• Moscow Metro
• New factories
• A system of wages, more work and more pay
• New industries (chemical processing)
• Increasing the standard of living
• War production (towards the end)

Progress:

Stakhanovite Movement

• Alexi Stakhanov. 1935: 102 tonnes of coal in a 6 hour shift

One month later: 227 tonnes

Received rewards (200 roubles, new apartment, tickets to cinemas) Planned. Propaganda.

Evaluation

+ Plans were more realistic than the first. Production of raw materials still continued to expand (output of steel trebled due to production from new plants - Magnitogorsk)

+ Transport:…