Industrial and Social Developments in Towns and Cities Flashcards
What was Gosplan?
The State Planning Agency, it was given the task of drawing up and establishing output targets for the Five Year Plans and other economic activities.
Which difficulties did Gosplan face?
Communist Party Leaders had overall say.
Regional Party Leaders argued over which region needed resources first and the Gosplan often received a lack of reliable information.
Why did Stalin make the targets so ambitious?
To force managers and workers to push themselves to the very limits, so that output could grow as quickly as humanly possible.
Was failure to meet a target a criminal offence?
Yup
How did managers avoid being punished for not meeting targets? Why did Gosplan suffer as a result of this?
Statistics were deliberately falsified, which put the Gosplan leaders responsible for taking in faulty statistics and failing to ensure that targets were met.
What was the Coal target production for the first Five Year Plan?
75 million tonnes by 1933.
What did the First Five Year Plan particularly focus on the development of?
Heavy Industry.
What was the percentage goal for the increase of production in the First Five Year Plan? To increase it by ___% ?
300%
Electricity production was to be increase by ___% in the First Five Year Plan.
600%.
What was the targeted production for Light Industry in the First Five Year Plan?
It should double its output.
After just four years, what did Stalin claim about the First Five Year Plan? Was his claim true?
That they’d met the targets already. But this was not true, it was simply due to over-enthusiastic reporting and falsified statistics.
What was the actual increase in Steel and Oil production for the First Five Year Plan? (Both the same).
They doubled.
What was the actual increase in Electricity production for the First Five Year Plan?
It trebled.
What was massively neglected in the First Five Year Plan?
Light Industry.
When was the Second Five Year Plan?
1933-1937
What did the Second Five Year Plan focus on? But, despite this new focus, what was still the main priority?
Consumer goods. Heavy Industry was still the priority though.
Which two huge projects were completed during the three good years of the Second Five Year Plan?
The Moscow Metro in 1935 and the Volga Canal in 1937
What happened to the Dineprotstroi Dam in 1937?
It was extended and ended up being the largest generator of hydro-electric power in Europe.
By how much did Steel Production grow in the Second Five Year Plan?
It trebled.
By how much did Coal Production grow in the Second Five Year Plan?
It doubled.
Why did the focus of the Second Five Year plan change slightly in 1936?
Focused a bit more on rearmament.
What was the overall quantity and quality problem of the Five Year Plans?
Managers were often so desperate to meet quotas that they did not produce high-quality goods.
How much coal was been produced in 1937?
128 million tonnes.
When was the third Five-Year Plan?
1938-1942
