Heavy Industry Flashcards
Alexander II [1855-1881]
Heavy Industry
The policies of reuten ( finance minister 1868-78)
• due to the railway Grove which extended to 13,979 miles of railway by 1878, and the emancipation of the Serfs in 1861
– the output of industrial production doubled
– the average annual growth was 6%
– the oil industry is created
– the coal and iron and textile Industries are expanded
Alexander III [1881-1893]
heavy industry
Due to the policies of Bunge
Trains now transport 24 million tons of industrial produce across Russia
this shows a lot of produce was being produced
Nicholas II [1893-1917]
Heavy industry
Due to the policies of count Sergei Witte (1893-1903)
By 1914 Russia was the fourth largest producer of coal/pig iron/steel in the world
From 1885 to 1913 oil production tripled
Buy 1914 Russia was the fifth largest industrial power in the world
The income from Industries was 161 million rubles in 1897
Between 1894- 1914 Russia Cole production increased by 306%
and iron and steel production increased by 250%
Provisional Government [1917]
heavy industry
Production of ammunitions was occurred during the war
Industry struggles to meet the demands of the war nevertheless it doesn’t completely collapse
Lenin [1917-1924]
heavy industry
During the policy of War communism in 1921 colon 8.9 million tons of coal
Compare this to 1913 level of 27.5 million tons you can see what reason was very successful
Buy 1926 under the nep 1913 levels of production were back
Factory production value by 1926 was 11,083 rubles this benefit is the economy apparently
Stalin [1929-1953]
Heavy industry
During the first 5 year plan
[1928-32]
– electricity output x31
– coal + iron x 2
– Steel increased by⅓
The second five year plan 1933-7
– 3 good years of success 34-36
– rapid growth of the electricity and chemical Industries
– new metals are being mined for first time such as tin, zinc, copper
– Steel X3
– coal x2
– by 1937 the USSR was self-sufficient in metal and machine Tool production
4th 5 year plan 1946-50
– pre-war levels of production were regained in 3 years
1940 = 166 M T Coal, 18.3 MT steel
1945 = 150 M T Coal, 12.3 MT steel,
Khrushchev [1956(3)-1964]
heavy Industry
Wanted to lower the dependence on heavy industry and focusing light Industries
Yet in the seven year plan by 1965
– 91 million tons of Steel had been produced
– 241 MT of oil produced
so pretty Successfull
