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6. When did the second FYP start?

  • 1933
  • 1932
  • 1956
  • 1934

7. What happened to many of the schemes started during the first FYP during the second?

  • They were adapted to fit the new targets
  • They were taken over by peasants from the countrysidr
  • They were completed
  • They were abandoned

8. What was still a problem during the second FYP?

  • Underdevelopment of Magnitogorsk
  • Underdevelopment of consumer industries
  • Underdevelopment of heavy industries
  • Overdevelopment of heavy industry

9. What was the main focus of the third FYP?

  • The Great Patriotic War
  • WW 1
  • Gigantomania
  • Stalin's private villa

10. When did the first FYP start?

  • 1918
  • 1928
  • 1927
  • 1931

11. What was significant about the First FYP?

  • Its focus was on WW2
  • It had many successes
  • The targets set were ever increasing and wholly unrealistic
  • Stalin visit all the factories exceeding the targets

12. Production of what actually exceeded the target set in the first FYP?

  • oil
  • electricity
  • coal
  • iron

13. What was Gosplan?

  • Another name for the Commissar for Heavy Industry
  • A planning commission that criticised the FYPs
  • A planning commision that coordinated the FYPs
  • A supreme economic council

14. What were the main focuses of the second FYP?

  • Untealistic targets, communication and housing
  • Living and working conditions
  • Heavy industry, transport and communication
  • Heavy industry, transport and Gigantomania

15. What did the workforce mostly consist of during the first FYP?

  • Children
  • Skilled experienced workers
  • Unskilled, illiterate peasants from the Collectivised countryside
  • Bourgeois experts and workers