Second five year plan

Question 1

When was the second FYP?

Answer 1

1933 - 7

Question 2

What were the aims of the second FYP?

Answer 2

• Continue developing heavy industry
• Promote growth of light industries
• Develop communications to provide links between cities and other industrial areas
• Faster engineering and tool making

Question 3

Why was Stalin more concerned about peoples standard of living?

Answer 3

The famine in 1934 - 6

Question 4

How did the second FYP want to help the heavy industries?

Answer 4

It wanted to consolidate its growth instead of doing it at a breakneck pace

Question 5

What happened to electricity production and the chemical industry?

Answer 5

Electricity production and chemical industry grew rapidly in the period

Question 6

What happened to steel output in the second FYP?

Answer 6

Tripled

Question 7

What happened to coal output in the second FYP?

Answer 7

Doubled

Question 8

When was the USSR almost self sufficient?

Answer 8

1937

Question 9

What was mined for the first time in the second FYP?

Answer 9

Tin, copper and zinc

Question 10

What was the USSR self sufficient in the second FYP?

Answer 10

Material goods and machine tools

Question 11

What happened to rearmament in the second FYP?

Answer 11

From 1933 - 7 the GDP for rearmament went from 4 - 17%

Question 12

What happened with transport in the second FYP?

Answer 12

The first Moscow Metro opened in 1935

The Moscow - Volga canal was completed between 1932 - 37

Question 13

What was the significance of the new transport systems in the second FYP?

Answer 13

It allowed for the transport of large quantities of material throughout Russia

Question 14

What happened to living standards with food ?

Answer 14

Bread ration ended in 1934, which then mead to meat and butter being taken off the ration

Question 15

What happened to living standards with wages?

Answer 15

Wages increased for workers

Question 16

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Answer 16

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Question 17

What happened in 1934 for peasants?

Answer 17

They were allowed to have small private plots that helped the USSR come out of its famines of the last few years

Question 18

What happened to the coordination of different industries?

Answer 18

It failed to happen, and they weren’t very well coordinated.

Question 19

What did factory managers do to get the target quotas?

Answer 19

They would hoard short supply items, which made their demand rise even more
They would also change or lie on reports to make it look like they had reached the quota

Question 20

What did factory managers do with broken pieces?

Answer 20

They left them because there weren’t many scraps or spare parts that can be used for the machines

Question 21

What happened to consumer goods?

Answer 21

Between 1934 - 6 the number of consumer goods still shrank and decreased in its quality

Question 22

What happened to private shoemaking?

Answer 22

It was banned because of the lack of leather

Question 23

How many people waited outside of a shoe store in 1936?

Answer 23

6,000

Question 24

What happened to social inequalities between the workers?

Answer 24

The workers that were the most productive got special treatment through better food and accommodation

Question 25

What happened to social inequalities between the workers and party members?

Answer 25

They could have better food, accommodation and luxuries like chauffeurs and booked seats in a cinema or theatre

Question 26

How much did the tractors increase by in the second FYP?

Answer 26

50.6 - 60.5 thousand from 1932 - 37 but it was still less than half of the target production