Unit 2 Introduction Flashcards
Land Decree on Workers’ Control
1917
War Communism Introduced
1918
New Economic Policy introduced
1921
Grain shortages
1927
First Five-Year Plan launched and collectivisation started
1928
Grain requisitioning begins
1928
Holodomor Famine in Ukraine
1932-33
The Great Patriotic War
1941-45
Fourth Five-Year Plan; reconstruction of the war-damaged economy
1946-50
Khrushchev launches Virgin Land Scheme
1954
Regional Economic Councils established
1957
Seven-Year Plan; focus on chemicals, light industry and consumer goods
1959-65
Kosygin’s economic reforms
1965
Andropov’s labour laws
1982
Who did the Bolsheviks believe all aspects of the economy should be in the hands of?
Workers and peasants