Successes and Failures of the Five Year Plan's Flashcards
For all their weaknesses what did the Five Year Plans undoubtedly help to do?
to transform the USSR into a modern industrial economy
Because targets were over ambitious what did this mean for the products?
that quantity was emphasised over quality
The Soviet economy grew at around what % each year between 1928-1940?
5-6%
The USSR became a major industrial power in little over how many years?
10 years
What did the Second Five Year Plan bring a huge growth in?
construction and transport
Between which years did the industrial workforce double?
1928-1932
between which years did the urban population increase from 26 million to 56 million?
1926-1939
Between 1926-1939 by how much did the urban population increase by?
from 26 million to 56 million
what were the 3 good years enjoyed by workers where there was an increase in consumer goods?
1934-1936
Under the third Five Year Plan, there was a huge growth in the armaments industry with tanks, aircraft and guns produced which were equal to what?
equal and even superior to anything produced elsewhere in the world
What reflects the third Five Year Plans success?
the ability of the USSR to gear itself for war
What was the USSR unable to extract to meet their needs?
sufficient oil
The occupation of which two areas relieved the USSR’s failure to extract sufficient oil to meet its needs?
- eastern Poland in 1939
- Baltic States in 1940
What did the Five Year Plans advance?
the proletarianism of the Russian people
What organisation organised the process by which industry was transformed under the Five year Plans?
Gosplan
