First Five Year Plan Flashcards
1
Q
What years were the First Five Year Plan
A
1928-32
2
Q
How would you describe it
A
Not one coherent plan, but a series of crude targets.
3
Q
What did Stalin claim about the plan? What was the reality?
A
It reached its targets in 4 years.
Reality was that none of the major targets were met
4
Q
Impressive industrial growth
A
- Electricity production trebled
- Coal and iron output doubled
- Steel production increased by 1/3
5
Q
New industrial complexes
A
Huge new industrial complexes were built such as the new tractor works in Stalingrad and in Kharkov.
Magnitogorsk was contracted by young communists
6
Q
What did it succeed in doing
A
Building a new workforce which included - women - convicts - displace peasants The plan also kickstarted industrialisation
7
Q
Drawbacks
A
Targets in chemical industry were not met - house-building - Food processing - other light industries were neglected
8
Q
Decline in consumer goods
A
One of the reasons for this was that smaller factories and workshops were starved of raw materials and collapsed.
