Five Year Plans Flashcards
Aims of the Second Five Year Plan
-continue the development of heavy industry
-promote the growth of light industries
-develop communications
-foster engineering and tool making
-stabilise and consolidate
Successes of the Second Five year plan
USSR beginning to benefit from improved infrastructure
Targeted for a greater share of investment of consumer goods
Productivity and wages rose
Moscow Metro, Volga, Dneiprostroi Dam.
Steel output tripled
Coal output doubled
Failures of Second Five Year Plan
Plan did not meet the aim of real higher wages
Industry experienced a slowdown to complete projects.
The ‘great Purge’ was counterproductive
Aims of the Third Five Year Plan
92% rise in industrial production.
expand secondary education
Focus on the defence sector
Development of heavy industry.
Transition to Communism
Successes of the Third Five Year Plan
Rearmament spending doubled between 1938-40
Production reached 250%
Created an industrial base for a powerful arms industry.
Failures of the Third Five Year Plan
Rearmament meant that other areas stagnated
Consumer goods relegated
Shortage of skilled workers
Shortage of oil.
Why was Alexie Stakhanov significant?
The perfect example of the Communist work ethic.
Stalin calling for a Stakhanovite movement over Russia.
What is socialist realism?
Truthful reality in its revolutionary development.
Art depicting the future of the Soviet Union
Party Youth Organisations
14 years and under- the pioneers
14-18- the Komsomol
2.3 million members in 1929- increased to 10.2 million.
Encouraged to report anti-Soviet views.
Morozov made a martyr for reporting his parents.
Education in Stalin Cult
1935 Education Law which restored the authority of teachers
Texts used in school prescribed by the State.
1939- 94% of town dwellers under 49 literate.
Media in Stalin Cult
All forms of media controlled by the government
Stalin was the founder and former editor of Pravda
Leisure and public celebrations in Stalin cult
Official organisations encouraged the party line
Socialist Realism
Kriukova’s ‘The Tale of Lenin was a folk tale. Lenin as the sun, Trotsky as the dark villain.
