FYP

Question 1

First FYP

Answer 1

Approved by the 16th Party congress April 1929, backdated to October 1928.​

Targets were very ambitious. ​

Focused on the development of heavy industry. ​

Focus on coal . Iron, steel, oil and machinery. ​

WSC.​

Fearful to criticise.​

Met targets on four years instead of five.

Question 2

Second FYP

Answer 2

More attention to consumer goods.​

Aims: continue the development of heavy industry, promote the growth of light industries, develop communications, engineering and tool making. ​

Three good years 1934-36.​

Question 3

Third FYP

Answer 3

Focus on defence sector.​

Aims heavy industry, rearmament and transition to communism. ​

Impacted heavily by the purges.

Question 4

First FYP achievements

Answer 4

Electricity output trebled. ​

Coal and iron output doubled. ​

Steel production increased by 1/3.​

Targets for chemical industry not met. ​

Consumer industries neglected. ​

Coal target: 75 million tonnes​

Actual: 64.4 million tonnes

Question 5

Second FYP achievements

Answer 5

Dnieprostroi dam extended to become the largest dam in Europe. ​

New metals such as copper, iron and zinc were mined for the first time. ​

Steel output trebled​

Coal production doubled​

1937 the USSR was self sufficient in metal goods and machine tools. ​

1936 rearmament increasingly becomes focus: 4% GDP in 1933 17% 1937.​

Coal target: 152.5 ​Actual: 128 ​

Steel produced exceeds target ( 17 MT 17.7) ​

Tractors production massively under preforms ( t 166.7 thousand r: 66.5)​

1937 industrial slow down: emphasis on completing projects rather than starting new ones. ​

Question 6

Third FYP achievements

Answer 6

Spending doubled on rearmament 1938-40.​

Steel stagnated, oil failed to meet targets: led to fuel crisis. ​

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Impacted by the purges. ​

Question 7

Successes of FYP

Answer 7

FIRST 5 YEAR PLAN :STEEL PRODUCTION INCREASED 1/3
ELEC PRODUCTION TREBLED
COAL + IRON DOUBLED
20 MILLION SHIFTED PEASANT SHIFT TO PROLETARIAT
1932 INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT TREBLED THE USA
DECLARED FINISHED IN THE FIRST 9 MONTH
INITIAL AIM: He demanded a 110% increase in coal production, 200% increase in iron production and 335% increase in electric power.
SECOND 5 YEAR PLAN: BY 1937 SELF SUFFICIENT IN METAL WORK
SIZE OF RED ARMY INCREASED
THIRD 5 YEAR PLAN : STEEL OUTPUT GREW
1941 INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT INCREASED- ANNUAL GROWTH OF 10% PER YEAR
28% INCREASED IN TANK AND AIRCRAFT- 1930-40
1942 55% NATIONAL INCOME INCOME MILITARY.

Question 8

Failures of FYP

Answer 8

FIRST 5 YEAR PLAN: SHORTAGES OF SKILLED WORKERS
HIGH WORKER TURNOVER 1930- 100,000 LEFT FROM 120,000 MAGNITOGORSK
DISCIPLINE INCREASED- RATION CARDS- 1932 DECREE SACK WORKERS
LITTLE GROWTH IN CONSUMER GOODS
SECOND 5 YEAR PLAN: CONSUMER GOOD DECLINED
OIL PRODUCTION DID NOT MEET TARGETS
LIVING + WORKING DECREASED
SOCIAL CONTROL AND TERROR INCREASED ( GREAT TERROR 1934-8
THIRD 5 YEAR PLAN: OIL NOT MEET TARGETS
FACTORIES FACED SHORTAGES OF RESOURCES ( FOCUS ON MILITARISATION)
PURGES OF GOSPLAN- SKILLED INDUSTRIAL LEADERS
1941 1/3 INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT IN THE HANDS OF THE GERMANS AND 1/2 POPULATION
61 MILLION AFFECTED BY RATIONING 1941