Chapter 15 - 5 yr plans

Magnitorsk (1929)

• largest steel producer in world

• built by party volunteers

economic growth of 1st 5 year plan

14%

iron output 1st five year plan

doubled

When the Dnieprostroi dam opened in ___ it increased electricity production by ____%

• 1932

• 500%

When was the stakhanovite movement

1935

What percentage of workers were stakhanovites?

25%

Under NEP, Coal and steel production was lower in ____ than ____

• 1926

• 1913

1 MTS for every … collective farms

40

Fall in grain production from 1928-33

17%

rationing ended…

1940

Investment in commanding heights of industry in 1st 5 year plan?

80%

industrial successes of 1st 5 year plan

- electricity production x3
- coal and iron output x2
- steel production up 1/3

Failures of 1st 5 year plan

• quicksand society

• all targets missed

• chemical production low

• consumer goods

When did the USSR become self sufficient in heavy industry?

1937

consumer production in 2nd 5 year plan

• meat packing plants

• ice cream factory

• modern bakeries

economic stagnation from…

1937

fuel crisis

1937

By 1941, The USSR produced ____ tanks and __ aircraft a month

• 230

• 700