Brezhnev economy

Question 1

Brezhnev replaced the Seven-Year Plan with a series of Five-Year Plans. When did the shift from the Seven-Year Plan to the Five-Year Plans occur?

Answer 1

1966

Question 2

What was introduced in 1965?

Answer 2

The Kosygin Reform

Question 3

What did the Kosygin Reform aim to do?

Answer 3

It aimed to decentralise economic planning - giving more autonomy to individual enterprises while attempting to improve efficiency and productivity within the centralised planned economy

Question 4

Military increased from __% to __% from 1964-1970

Answer 4

11
13

Question 5

Military spending increased and had short-term success. What was achieved by 1970?

Answer 5

Nuclear parity (United States and the Soviet Union had achieved a relative balance in their nuclear capabilities)

Question 6

Maintaining nuclear parity drained the economy which led to more long-term economic and social issues. What is an example?

Answer 6

It diverted resources from crucial civilian sectors - it hindered the development of civilian industries and social programs

This ultimately exacerbated economic inefficiencies and structural problems within the Soviet economy

Question 7

What aim implemented by Khrushchev did Brezhnev drop?

Answer 7

The commitment of becoming a communist state by 1980