Successes of Stalins leadership Flashcards
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how was economy successful
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- FIVE YEAR PLANS- gave strong focus to building economy
- built cities from scratch: MAGNITOGORSK
- improved infrastructure of Russia- roads- Moscow underground
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION- 5 million tonnes available to export
-attempts to mechanise farming- tractor stations
RAW MATERIALS- coal increased- 35 mill- 1280 mill tonnes
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how was social successful
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- HEALTHCARE- by 1940 Russia had more doctors than Britain
- EDUCATION increased- compulsory free education- literacy rate increased
- WOMEN had increased opportunities in work places- creation of creches enabled women to work
- 40% of workforce by 1930s
-PROMOTIONS- well behaved workers- better quality lives- raises
3
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how was war successful
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- SCORCHED EARTH POLICY- effective- destroyed animals & land making it harder for G to advance
- RELOCATION- of industry over Ural mountains- safeguard industry- russia quick to continue after war
- PROPAGANDA- pushed idea that war was ‘great patriotic war’- rather than a communist one
- RELIGION restored- S understood what russian people needed to get through war
- WIN WAR- pushes soviet union
- enables USSR to emerge as superpower
4
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What was unsuccessful about Stalin’s leadersip
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GREAT TERROR- army- serverly weakened- experinced officers were removed
- lack of experience of army soldiers threatened USSR when G attacked in 1941
- whole country weakened- many talented individuals removed from society
COLLECTIVISATION- peasants who refused to hand over food were left to starve- caused anger- protests
- collective farming- inefficient- peasants unfamiliar with new farming methods
- grain production initially decreased
- famines occurred
5
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human cost
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GREAT TERROR- 25,000, army officers removed
- 18 mill transported to gulags- 1937
- 10 mill died- 1937
- 3 mill remained in gulags- 1939
CENSORSHIP- religious services banned
-only 1 in 40 held regular services
COLLECTIVISATION- famine occurred- 1932-33- millions died
