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USSR: Topic 2 - Economy Flashcards

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1
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October 1917

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Decree on Land

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Decree on Land (2)

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Estates belonging to the Church and aristocracy were broken up
Peasants could own the land they worked

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March-June 1918

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State Capitalism

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4
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Vesenkha (2)

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The Supreme Soviet of the National Economy

A group of economic experts that ran all nationalized industries by coordinating economic production and setting targets

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July 1918

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Introduction of War Communism

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War Communism (4)

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A set Communist economic measures that ensured:
High levels of industrial production
Efficient allocation of workers
Enough agricultural production to feed the Red Army and then the working population

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7
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1918: working day

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11 hour working day

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8
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16-50 years of age

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Compulsory working age in 1919

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9
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3 million –> 1.2 million

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The decline in the industrial workforce between 1917-1922

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Gross industrial output: 1913-1920

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1913 Index: 100

1920 Index: 31

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11
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60%

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The percentage of food that came from the black market

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12
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1921 harvest

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46% less yield than the 1913 harvest

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March 1921

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Introduction of the New Economic Policy (NEP)

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NEP

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An economic policy that turned the USSR into a mixed economy with a free market agriculture sector and a nationalized industrial sector

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15
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Grain production: 1921-1926

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1921: 37.61 million tons
1926: 76.80 million tons

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16
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Scissors Crisis

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Uneven economic growth caused by a gap in the low incomes of farmers and high price of industry meaning there was no incentive for farmers to keep producing large quantities of grain

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17
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Nepmen

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Salesmen who profited immensely by selling desirable goods from factories or farms at black markets

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18
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Dictatorship of Industry

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Forced agricultural collectivisation in order raise funds for rapid industrialisation

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First Five-Year Plan

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October 1928-December 1932

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January 1933-December 1937

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Second Five-Year Plan

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Third Five-Year Plan

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January 1938-June 1941

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Gosplan

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The Vesenkha under Stalin; a central economic agency that formulated production targets for every factory, mine and workshop

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23
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Steel production: 1927-1940

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1927: 4.00 million tons
1940: 18.30 million tons

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24
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Moscow Metro

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First lines opened in 1935

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25
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Moscow-Volga Canal

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An immense canal constructed between 1932 and 1937 that allowed for the efficient transportation of goods

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26
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51%

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Estimated gains in labour productivity in electrical production between 1936-1940 due to the Stakhanovite movement

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Military spending in 1940

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1/3 of total government spending

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28
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Industrial waste

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40% of industrial production was stored at factories and left to waste

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April 1929

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The publishing of the first 5YP, six months after its supposed implementation

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30
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Shoe queues in Moscow

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Lines for shows in Moscow often exceeded 1000 people in the early 1930s

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Liubertsy, Moscow

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A district in Moscow that had a single bathhouse for the 650,000 people living there

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32
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Kulak Grain Strike

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In 1927, farmers decreased grain production to push up prices causing a shortage in the cities but a profit for the famers

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July 1928

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The end of the NEP as Stalin uses the Cheka to requisition grain

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34
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Dekulakisation

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Mass deportation of 1.5 million of the richest peasants (kulaks) and any peasants who resisted government policy

35
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1929-1930 –> 1930 –> 1931 –> 1941

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A drive for collectivisation –> a halt due to instability –> reinstation of collectivisation –> almost all farms had been collectivised

36
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60 million

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The number of sheep and goats that were killed during the transition to collectivisation

37
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Grain production: 1928-1934

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1928: 73.3 million tons
1934: 67.6 million tons

38
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Holodomor

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Government-created famine between 1932 and 1933 to destroy the resistance of Ukrainian farmers to collectivisation

39
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Grain exports: 1928-1932

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1928: 1 million tons
1932: 5 million tons

40
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Private vs State farms

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Private farms: 410 kilos per hectare of produce
State farms: 320 kilos per hectare of produce
X2 more meat and milk produced by private farms

41
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US imports in WW2

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The USSR relied on these imports to supply a fifth of the calories consumed by the Red Army

42
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1945-1950

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Fourth Five-Year Plan

USSR = the fastest growing economy in the world

43
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88%

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Percentage of total economic investment that went into heavy industry during the fourth 5YP

44
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Coal production: 1940-1950

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1940: 165.9 million tons
1950: 261.1 million tons

45
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Military budget: 1952

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¼ of the total government budget

46
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12%

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Percentage of total economic investment that went into food production and consumer goods during the fourth 5YP

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Production of consumer goods: 1945-1950

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Doubled

48
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1946-1949

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Severe grain shortages

49
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1947-1952

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Grain production rose and returned to pre-war levels

50
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250% increase

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The increase in farm incomes between 1952-1956

51
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1954-1955: tractors and fertilisers

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Tractor production: 30% increase

Fertiliser production: 40% increase

52
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September 1953

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Virgin Lands Scheme

53
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Virgin Lands Scheme

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An agricultural scheme to increase production by turning unfarmed land in Kazakhstan, the northern Caucasus and western Siberia into new farms

54
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Farmland expansion: 1953-1964

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1953: 18.2 million hectares
1964: 97.4 million hectares

55
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September 1958

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The Corn Campaign

56
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The Corn Campaign

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An agricultural campaign to shift wheat production to the Virgin Lands farms and introduce maize in the Ukraine to feed animals and increase meat availability

57
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Maize production: USSR vs US

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Soviet farms produced 50% less corn per hectare than US farms

58
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35.3%

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The increase in agricultural production between 1953 and 1958

59
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Grain harvest: 1953-1958

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1953: 82.5 million tons
1958: 134.7 million tons

60
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Economic growth: 1950-1958

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7.1% increase; the fastest growing economy in the world

61
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Agriculture labour: USSR vs US

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USSR: 44% of the population worked on farms
US: 5% of the population worked on farms, producing X2 the food

62
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Agricultural production: 1958-1964

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15% increase in production which was historically high

Did not match the ambitious targets that Khrushchev had proposed in 1956

63
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Agricultural spending: 1960

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1960: 2% of the total budget

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Military spending: 1955–>1958–>1964

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1955: 12.1% of the total budget
1958: 9.1% of the total budget
1964: 11% of the total budget

65
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January 1959

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The Seven-Year Plan

66
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60%

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The increase in the production of consumer goods between 1959 and 1965, 5% below target

67
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19 million tons

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The increase in the production of fertiliser between 1959 and 1965. 3.5 million tons below target

68
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241,000 tons

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The increase in the production of synthetic fibres between 1959 and 1965. 200,000 tons below target

69
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February 1957

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Sovnarkhoz reforms

70
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Re-centralisation

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1958-1964

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February 1962

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Khrushchev splits Party into agriculture and industry sectors

72
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Economic growth: 1958-1964

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A decline to a 5.3% increase

73
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January 1968

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Introduction of the “Kosygin reforms”

74
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Kosygin reforms

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Cut investment into inefficient collective farms

Divert money into light industry

75
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August 1968

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End of the “Kosygin reforms”

76
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Military spending: 1964-1970

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1964: 11% of the total budget
1970: 13% of the total budget

77
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Oil production: 1965-1980

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1965: 243 million tons
1980: 603 million tons

78
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Economic growth: 1970s

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A sharp decline to around a 2% increase

79
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November 1982

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Anti-corruption campaign

80
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Nikolai Shchelokov

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Red Army General and Minister of the Interior

Killed himself before his trial for corruption

81
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Operation Trawl

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An anti-drunkenness and anti-absenteeism campaign

KGB combed through parks, restaurants and train stations to arrest those drunk or absent from work

82
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Sovnarkhoz reforms

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Decentralisation of the Gosplan into 105 sovnarkhoz: regional planning agencies

83
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Agricultural spending: 1954-1959

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1954: 3% of the total budget
1959: 12.8% of the total budget

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