1st 5YP

Question 1

What were the key features of the first 5YP?

Answer 1

Rapid growth in heavy industry

Question 2

What were the successes?

Answer 2

• 17% industry growth

• 2x coal and 3x electricity production

• industrial centre built (Magnitogorsk)
—> 25 to 250,000 population

Question 3

What were the failures?

Answer 3

• consumer goods neglected

• grain production 32% below average

• lack of skilled workers; kept changing jobs; instability

• White Sea canal

Question 4

What was the White Sea canal project?

Answer 4

Major construction project to build a dam that connected white and Baltic seas
—> 1/2 depth to save time; large ships
couldn’t pass
—> 10,000 died