Stalin Industry and Workers

Question 1

Railways

Answer 1

1940-66, 250 miles

Question 2

Policies (4 things)

Answer 2

Gosplan (stats and targets) went hand in hand with collectivisation, 1927/28 - First Fiver Year Plan (outcomes - coal and iron doubled). Forced labour (3 million Kulaks and Gulags), Propaganda (Stakahanovite movement)

Question 3

Coal production output and growth rate

Answer 3

1950 - 261 million tonnes - annual growth rate - 1940 - 17% (West average 10%)

Question 4

Housing

Answer 4

Overcrowding returned. WW2 - 25 million homeless

Question 5

Workers (3 things)

Answer 5

Slave labour in Gulag for 3 million. Absenteeism and lateness considered crimes - lead to sacking - lost pay and housing. Poor conditions