7) Second Five Year Plan: 1933-37

Question 1

Why was a new propaganda campaign introduced?

Answer 1

During the first five year plan their was low productivity which held back economic growth.

Question 2

What was the new propaganda campain?

Answer 2

• alexei stakhanov was held as an example to workers
• 14 x the output of a normal miner
• 1 month later, 227 tonnes of coal in a single shift

Question 3

What were the successes of the second five year plan?

Answer 3

• output of steel trebled
• transport: the first lines of Moscow metro opened
• improvement in living standard through reforms in agriculture: allowed to farm privately which allowed people to recover from famines.

Question 4

What were the problems with the second five year plan?

Answer 4

• fear of execution/exile –> nobody criticised plan

- consumer goods eg shoe production. In 1934 6000 people waited for more than a day outside the only shoe shop

Question 5

What did the second five year plan focus on?

Answer 5

Heavy industry. New industries (eg chemical processing) and transport.
This is because the threat of war had increased and peasant support would be crucial -> needed better standard of living