UNIT 2: REVISION DECK

Question 1

What are the 4 criteria of judgement for this chapter?

Answer 1

1) Economic growth: GDP and growth in individual industries

2) Creation of a broad and diverse industrial base: includes infrastructure

3) Quality and efficiency of goods produced

4) Development of Agriculture

Question 2

What are the overall arguments for Economic growth under Lenin?

Answer 2

• Civil war and War communism crippled economic growth: BY 1920 industrial production had fallen to pre war levels
• Some recovery under the NEP
• BY 1926 Industrial production had not exceeded pre WW1 levels

Question 3

What are the key arguments for economic growth under Stalin?

Answer 3

• 5YPs produced impressive levels of economic growth
• Growth figures of 17% in the 1930s
• BY 1937 Industrial production had increased by 400%
• Damaged by German Occupation
• Military production rose in WW2
• USSR recovered quickly after WW2 with 4th 5YP exceeding targets

Question 4

What are the key arguments for economic growth under Khrushchev?

Answer 4

• Annual growth rate in 1950s slowed to 7.1%
• Still higher than USA
• Economic growth began to slow towards 1964

Question 5

What are the key arguments for economic growth under Brezhnev?

Answer 5

• Under 9th 5YP growth rate in consumer goods rose along with living standards
• BY 1980 85% of families had a TV
• Investment in public transport was high
• Although only 9% of the population had a car

Question 6

What are the key overall arguments for broad/diverse Industrial base under Lenin?

Answer 6

• Lenin did not create a broad Industrial base
• Production concentrated on heavy Industry
• Little Improvement in Infrastructure

Question 7

What are the key overall arguments for broad/diverse Industrial base under Stalin?

Answer 7

• Some progress made: vehicle manufacture and HEP
• Significant improvements in infrastructure: Moscow Metro (1935) and White Sea Canal (1933)
• Industrial cities built: Magnitogorsk
• 2nd 5YP food processing focused on
• Investment channelled into heavy industry which ignored light industry and consumer goods

Question 8

What are the key overall arguments for broad/diverse Industrial base under Khrushchev?

Answer 8

• 7th 5YP saw progress
• Greater focus on chemical Industry and consumer goods
• Output of consumer goods rose by 84%
• Synthetic fibres rose by 500,000 tonnes
• Dominance of a military Industrial complex
• Resources for consumer goods limited by Industry

Question 9

What are the key overall arguments for broad/diverse Industrial base under Brezhnev?

Answer 9

• Reformers in Politburo attempted to reform Industry
• 1973 Industrial and Science institutions allied to gain better technology
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