Stalin's five year plans

Question 1

five year plans and industrial targets

Answer 1

-a government initiative designed to increase prod
-production targets implemented for each industrial institution
-done by gosplan- USSR’s central economic agency
-up to workers and managers to meet targets

Question 2

use of propaganda in five year plans

Answer 2

-large propaganda campaign launched
-designed to inspire workers to meet set targets
-focused on heroic objectives of the plan
-has ideological influence
-stakhnov mined 114 tonnes of output in 5 hours 42 minutes (14 times the output)

Question 3

realities of fyp

Answer 3

-inaccurate to call them plans in sense of Econ policy
-they were targets set by Gosplan with backing of propaganda
-USSR did not make any efforts to ensure resources available to meet targets

Question 4

first five year plan

Answer 4

-finally approved April 1929
-purely ideoligical-socialist struggle
-prep for war against capitalist enemies
-great emphasis on heavy industry
-targets were incredibly unrealistic

Question 5

did five year plans actually produce results

Answer 5

-despite vast exaggeration, definitely increased rate of industrial output
-1st and second saw increase in production of raw materials like coal, pig iron and electricity
-coal output from 35.5m tonnes in 1928 to 76.3m tonnes by 1933