5 year plans

Question 1

whats the date for the first 5 year plan?

Answer 1

October 1928- December 1932

Question 2

whats the date for the second 5 year plan?

Answer 2

January 1933- December 1937

Question 3

whats the date for the third 5 year plan?

Answer 3

January 1938- June 1941

Question 4

whats the date for the fourth 5 year plan?

Answer 4

January 1946- December 1950

Question 5

whats the date for the fifth 5 year plan?

Answer 5

January 1951- December 1955

Question 6

what was the overall reason for the 5 year plans?

Answer 6

Stalin wanted to revolutionize Russia and creating a genuine socialist society, he wanted too achieve great agriculture and improve economy and society for Russia through collectivization.

Question 7

What are ideological factors for the five year plans?

Answer 7

Stalin wanted to create he dream of a socialist Russia, he thought that the revolution should serve the working class and the bourgeoisie. Under NEP with Lenin the peasants had prospered while conditions for workers were slow to improve, he wanted to reverse this and he replaces specialists with red specialists.

Question 8

what are the political causes for the five year plans?

Answer 8

Stalin believed that the crash industrialization was because of the successes of collectivization. He insulted Lenin’s successes and failures in a public speech on his birthday and stated that it was no longer ‘Leninist Russia’ but i was now Stalinist Russia and it was only the start. He wanted to improve coal iron and steel production to improve economy as it was necessary for modern warfare.

Question 9

what are the economic causes fir the five year plans?

Answer 9

The first five year plan was introduced because of the failures of NEP to industrialize Russia. Stalin realizes that the pace of industrialization was slow and never amounted to the amount it tsarists Russia. He wanted to make sure people actually met their target because they had not under NEP and Stalin knew they were significantly behind other countries in industrialization and technology.

Question 10

what were the successes for the first 5 year plan?

Answer 10

1. It caused the economy to increase economy growth by 14%, America and Europe were in a depression therefore it meant they were keeping up to date with other countries. In terms of iron coal ans steel, they increased output more than any other economic system.
2. the Urban population trebled and peasants moved to cities to take on unskilled jobs. Many members of the working class were promoted and became managers of new soviet industries. Education was reformed and workers were encouraged to go to classes in technical subjects and university became accessible to people with minimal qualifications. The government introduced proletarian advancement and removed bourgeoisie specialists and replaced with red class specialists.

Question 11

what were the failures of the first 5 year plan?

Answer 11

1. Although production had increased, many of the official targets never got met and large scale fraud allowed Stalin to claim they were being met. Party officials who didn’t meet their targets were demoted or sacked. and sometimes put on trial or executed and local administers tended to lie about how much they can produce of raw materials and created the impression that their targets had been exceeded.

Question 12

give some statistics about the production in the first 5 year plan?

Answer 12

iron
1913- 4.2 million tonnes
1928- 3.3 million tonnes
1932- 6.2 million tonnes

steel
1913- 4 million tonnes
1928- 4 million tonnes
1932- 5.9 million tonnes

coal
1913- 29.1 million tonnes
1928- 35.4 million tonnes
1932- 64.3 million tonnes

oil
1913- 9.2 million tonnes
1928- 11.7 million tonnes
1932- 21.4 million tonnes

Question 13

explain the abolition of the free market?

Answer 13

he wanted to get rid of the free market and replace it with a centrally organised economy. He thought the first 5 year plan was to chaotic and imprecise, It was also unable to destroy the free market and it encouraged the formation of the black market. There was a shortage of consumer goods like vodka, cigarettes and footwear and food, they introduced speculators that are subject to show trials which usually ended in their exile to forced labor camps.

Question 14

explain Magnitogorsk?

Answer 14

Stalin introduced this saying he would give them houses and food if they worked here but since there was lack of production he failed to do so. They aimed to grow steel works and it was planning to be Russia largest steel factory. 40000 prison workers were there and many left after 82 days work because of the failure to meet expectations.