INDUSTRY AND AGRICULTURE- STALIN ERA

what year was the first 5 year plan?

1928-1932

what were the terms in the first plan?

-focus on heavy industry
-industries like household goods (consumer industries) were neglected

what was the justification neglecting consumer goods industries?

-infrastructure needed to be built up before other industries could produce goods

Who were the 'superindustrialisers'?

Those within the Communist Party who believed that heavy industry should be given priority over the other sectors of the economy

-believed agricultural economy should be taken over by the state for investment

what was Magnitogorsk and Gorki?

-large industrial centres built from scratch and became cities

what was the population of Magnitogorsk in 1929-1932 and where were workers housed?

1929=25
1932=25000
-workers housed in tents and huts- socialist beliefs for motivation

What were shock brigades?

-workers who were determined to increase their productivity beyond expectation

-best workers who set the expectation up for the rest

-increased morale- made it a competition

Who was Alexi Stakhanov?

a miner who could mine 15 times the amount of any other

what did many sites have statues of?

Lenin- for motivation

percentage of workers skilled in Moscow in 1933:

17%

what years were the second 5 year plan?

1933-1937

what were the policies in the second 5 year plan?

-higher targets for the production of consumer goods
-oil industry was still lacking
-the chemical industry made progress

why did the focus shift to defense?

because of Hitlers rise to power
-heavy industry became a focus once again

where was relocation prominent in the 2nd and 3rd plans?

Kazakhstan- east of the mountains to avoid attack from the west

When was the 3rd Five Year Plan?

1938-1941

what did it focus on? 3rd year plan

defense due to the war