Ind Development Under Khrushchev: Ind Change

Question 1

What did the 7YP have an emph on

Answer 1

-improving standard of living for ordinary people

Question 2

How did the 7YP aim to improve living standards

Answer 2

-with a 40hr work week
-40% pay rise by 1965
-need to focus on modern inds to gubernatorial people stuff to buy with wage increases

Question 3

What was the main slogans that accompanied the 7YP

Answer 3

-‘catch up and overtake the USA by 1970’

Question 4

What did this plan see a shift in

Answer 4

-slight shift from focus in old heavy Ind to neglected ‘modern inds’
-such as radios + food production focus

Question 5

What was this shift accompanied by

Answer 5

-vast expansion of chemical Ind like plastics + fertilisers
-housing factories produced prefabricated sections for new flats
-increased consumer goods production
-greater exploitation of USSR resources like coal + oil + building power stations

Question 6

What else was a main focus of this 7YP

Answer 6

-expanding Soviet communications + technology a major focus

Question 7

What did this focus on communications + technology lead to

Answer 7

-many railway lines electrified with network greatly expanded
-1959 icebreaker ‘Lenin’ launched - first civil nuclear powered ship

Question 8

How was this expansion in technology seen in air travel

Answer 8

-air transport expanded + Aeroflot corporation subsidised to offer cheap long distance passenger travel
-peasants afford 200 mile ticket to Moscow to sell produce there

Question 9

How was this expansion in technology seen in space race

Answer 9

-1957 USSR launched first artificial satellite - Sputnik
-1959 red flag placed on moon + pictures dark side of moon taken