2nd Five year plan 1933-37

Features of 2nd year plan

• Heavy industry still featured strongly, but new industries opened up. there was a greater emphasis on communications e.g railways to link industrial centres

• 4,500 enterprises opened

• Benefitted from building of large projects, many of which began production in this phase, e.g Magnitogorsk 1934

• Consolidation of 1st 5 year plan

Successes of 2nd 5 year plan 1933-37

• Plants set up during 1st plan came on stream. Electricity production expanded rapidly

• Coal production rose 1932- 64.3mill tonnes to 128mill

• Chemical industry made progress

• by 1937, machine and metal making were virtually self sufficient

• transport and communications grew

• metallurgy, metals mined

• less intense pressure/ targets

Failure software 2nd 5 year plan 1933-37

• Consumer goods industries still massively lacking ( some growth in footwear and food processing e.g meatpacking but not enough)

• Oil production did not make expected advances

• Accusations of sabotage in workforce as workers scapegoated during terror

How well organised was it?

• Party feeling (e.g Kirov& congress of victors) that targets were too high in 1st plan

• 1934-36 known as ‘good years’, better planning, pressure not so intense, food rationing ended

Moscow metro 1935

Opened in 1935, with help of volunteers