Stalin's economic policy Flashcards
Collective farms
Kolkhoz
Stalin’s objectives
Industrialisation, farming more efficient
First five year plan years
1928-1932
How many households collectivised by 1930
90%
Reasons against Kulaks
Grain procurement crisis, Burning of crops and livestocks, resistance against collectivisation
How many tractors sent to MTS
100,000
How many lost their lives
5-10 million
Ukrainian famine
Holodomor 1932
How many collective farms shared one MTS
40 collective farms
How much did Grain production fall during WW2
2/3
Oil production fell by
1/3
1st 5YP how much material wasted
40%
2nd 5YP
Railway, machinery, tractors, some consumer goods
4th and 5th 5YPs
25% on war material
Stalin’s prestigious projects
Moscow’s underground, Belamor canal, Dnieper dam
Effects of first 5YP
Electricity tripled
Coal doubled
Steel production up 1/3
How many moving to urban areas
14 million
Magnitogorsk population
1929: 25
1932: 250,000
White Sea canal
180,000 employed
10,000 died in 1932
Successes of 3rd 5YP
Steel increased 400%
coal increased 600%
Most tanks in the world
1941 USSR’s production
Overtook that of Germany’s and Britain’s
After ww2
Reconstruction and reconversion
70,000
villages destroyed during WW2