1st 5 Year Plan Flashcards
when was the first 5 year plan?
october 1928 to december 1932
what were the aims?
- create an actually socialist economy & society
- catch up with other nations
- ambitious, unrealistic targets for coal, steel, iron etc
- abolish the free market & replace with a centrally planned economy
- magnitogorsk = an entire steelworks & city from scratch
success = at what % did the economy grow at per year?
14% - impressive compared to america etc who were suffering from the wall street crash
iron production figure
3.3 to 6.2 million tonnes
oil production figure
11.7 to 21.4 million tonnes
what was the issue with targets?
many of the official targets were never actually met but fraud from local administrators meant stalin could claim that the plan had been over-fulfilled - QUANTITY OVER QUALITY!!!
what happened to local party members who didn’t meet targets?
they were sacked, demoted & sometimes executed, so they often lied about production numbers in order to meet targets
what happened to standard of living?
it wasn’t even considered = workers lived on rations & had diets worse than during the NEP & consumer goods disappeared - 7 working day week
what were the effects of harsh labour discipline?
it was counter productive - absenteeism & low productivity increased
what happened to the black market?
shortages of consumer goods made them more expensive, making the black market widespread
issue of magnitogorsk
when workers arrived, few houses were actually built - workers left after 82 days on average HOWEVER 40,000 workers & many volunteers turned grasslands into one of russia’s major industrial centres
