2nd 5 year plan

Question 1

Who was it under?
what did the mid 1930s see?
When was it?

Answer 1

Kuibyshev
Mid 1930s saw the lionisation of the technical expert
33-37

Question 2

What were the aims of the second 5 year plan?
projects
investment
living

Answer 2

• to complete the myriad of projects begun in the first 5 year plan
• to invest in the overworked and inadequate transport structure
• to attempt to improve living standards through more substantial investment in consumer goods and end rationing in 1935

Question 3

Success:
How many industrial projects completed?
what were they self sufficient in?

greater emphasis on________?
what benefitted? what expanded rapidly?
what were known as the three good years?

Answer 3

-4500 industrial projects completed
self sufficient in machine tool and metallurgy industries.

greater emphasis on communications and linkage of railways to cities
heavy industries benefitted from plants set up in the first plan- electricity production expanded rapidly.
3 good years 1934-7 rationing was stopped and families had more disposable income.

Question 4

Failures:
What didnt make expected advances?
Why was there industrial slowdown?
What was Stalin's response?
What was the effect of this?

Answer 4

• Oil industry didnt make expected advances.
• emphasis on completing project instead of starting new ones
• blamed wreckers and saboteurs responsible for his own failings and -purged both the party and the wider population- engineers, economists, technicians, statisticians
• weakened Soviet Union economically but to Stalin there was a perceived increase in political security