Industry Flashcards
Lenin
Agriculture, retail, services, food and light industry were mostly in private hands
Heavy industry, transport, banks, wholesale and international trade were state owned
State owned enterprises competed with each other
Gosplan uses to know where to put public investment
Military schools destroyed by the rev and civil war were rebuilt
Impossible to immediately begin technical re equipment of red army due to backwardness of heavy industry
Surplus of workers in villages 1 million to the cities a year
Overpopulation led to urban unemployment
2 million unemployed
Scissor crisis
Stalin
Used propoganda to mobilise population in support of industrialisation
Lots of cheap labour due to collectivisation
Hundreds of factories and power stations built
1930- 1,500 facilities launched
700,000 factors produced( 40% of the world’s production)
Central institute of Labour created 1,700 training points
Operated in all leading sectors
Capital investment in heavy industry almost immediately exceeded the previously planned amount
This led to inflation
And sacrificed the consumer goods industry
Stakhonivist movement
Rapid urbanisation
Increased by 12.5 million people
Steel went from 5.9 million in 1928 to 14.5 million in 1937
Industry(without small) contributed to 70.7% of the economy
Industrial production 1928-37 increased up to 16% a year
Machinery grew 27.4% a year
Khruschev
7 year plan increased investment in light industry (1959)
Consumer goods grew initially by 60%
By the end it was down by 5%
Chemicals down 20%
Ownership of radios and tvs up
Failure of Virgin land scheme
Brezhnev
Plan for great C.G success
85% owned a TV in 1980 and 70% a washing machine
Increased investment in transport
Worker productivity worsened once more
Failed to reach food production demands
Returned to family farming
Imported wheat from U.S
Andropov
Believed solving widespread problems with alcoholism and absenteeism under his anti corruption campaign would improved industrial production
