5 year plan overall success

Question 1

New industrial centres and projects:
The expansion of the network of what?

the mining of what where?

Centres of iron, steel and other metallurgical manufacture at where?

What factories and where? What did they serve as?

Answer 1

• hydroelectric power stations across the River Dnieper in Ukraine
• the mining of coal in the Donbass region and the new industrial city of Stalinsk in Western Siberia

Centres of iron, steel and other metallurgical manufacture at Sverdlovsk, Magnitogorsk

Tractor factories in Stalingrad which served as bases for armament production

Question 2

Society success:
Urban population growth?
unemployment?
What did expansion of industry increase?
What did economic changes allow for?

what did demand for _______ bring? what percentage increase of women with wages?

higher education:
how many children in school?

Answer 2

1926-1940: 26 to 56 million UPG

unemployment ended

Expansion of industry increased social mobility, a peasant could become a manager in a few years

Economic changes allowed for the creation of a moderately prosperous technical class who could be grateful to Stalin in material terms

Demand for labour brought women into the workplace

1926-1940: 24-39% WWW

higher education geared towards technical training expanded rapidly

1928-41: 12- 35 million children in School

Question 3

Society failures:
Average floor space 1926-39
Wages
QOL
QOW
WC

Answer 3

8.3-6.7 m2 per person
Wages did not increase proportionately to free market prices
Poor quality of life
poor quality of work
dangerous working conditions

Question 4

Overall success:
comparable (IMPRESSIVE)
overall industrial output
foreign trade
electricity output:
how was transport improved?

Answer 4

Soviet Union industrialised up to a level comparable with the United states- impressive considering it was done in a 10 year period

overall industrial output trebled

control of foreign trade allowed high level of investment in machinery

5-48 milliards

Transport improved with Moscow metro and Volga Canal

Question 5

Involvement of foreign companies:
thousands of foreign engineers helped develop soviet technical expertise- where were most of them from?
what were they in search for?
What American company was commissioned to assist what? what were they frustrated by?

Answer 5

• American and German
• in search for employment following the devastating effects of the Great Depression triggered by the Wall Street Crash in 1929
• Arthur G. McKee was commissioned to assist the replication of a US- style steel mill at Magnitogorsk. They were frustrated with the unrealistic demands and incompetent peasant labour

Question 6

Stakhanovite movement:
when?
who?
what?
what was this used as?
what was the effect of this on productivity?

Answer 6

1935
Aleksei Stakhanov a coal miner in the Donbass region managed to drill 14 times his quota of coal
-Party insisted on more ambitious work norms
and functioned as a way of removing excuses from those accused of failing.
-Nove argues that, alongside fines for absenteeism and new technology, this led to greater productivity.

Question 7

Stalins speech: date and what did he say?

Answer 7

1931

“We have fallen behind the advanced countries by fifty to a hundred years. We must close the gap in ten years. Either we do this or we’ll be crushed”