Russia economic policy

Question 1

What was the impact of NEP on the rural economy?

Answer 1

lack of food due to lack of incentives, inefficient farming methods
January 1928 - Stalin reinstates grain requisitioning - Urals-Siberian method

Question 2

what was the impact of NEP on the urban economy?

Answer 2

high unemployment
no international loans
war scares

Question 3

what were the reasons to abandon NEP?

Answer 3

won’t provide incentive to peasants to produce enough grain to export
help win the leadership struggle

Question 4

what are the policies of the Great Turn?

Answer 4

collectivisation of agriculture - state-run to ensure efficient production to fund industrialisation
Five year plans = industry - create a managed economy meeting needs of state and society

Question 5

what were the motives of collectivisation?

Answer 5

• peasants like workers living “agro towns” - farms like “factories without roves”
• larger farms more efficient due to machinery
• 1529, 5% in collective farms producing 14% of grain
• necessary to fund industrialisation
  1927-28 - Grain procurement crisis - catalyst to switch to Urals-Siberian method

Question 6

what were the motives for the five year plan?

Answer 6

• necessity for communist nation to be advanced
• “Bourgeois Specialist” replaced by “red specialists” - superiority of working class
• NEP had failed