Successes (increasing production/social mobility)

What did it cause the Russian economy to do? (IP)

Grow around 14% a year, achievement in comparison with America and Europe as they were in the state of depression after the Wall Street Crash

What else was economic growth impressive compared to? (IP)

Economic achievements of Tsarism and the NEP, in terms of iron, steel,coal and oil it outperformed any previous economic system

What happened to the urban population? (SM)

It trebled as peasants moved to cities to take unskilled jobs in industry

What did many peasants become? (SM)

Managers of new Soviet industries or were retrained as engineers or administrators

How was education reformed to meet the needs of the plan? (SM)

Workers were encouraged to attend classes in technical subjects and unis were made accessible to people without academic qualifications

What programme was introduced and what was its impact? (SM)

A programme of ‘proletarian advancement’, which removed the existing bourgeois specialists and replaced them with 150,000 newly trained working-class red specialists