Third FYP

Oil production

• Failed to meet targets causing a fuel crisis

• Some relief gained by Sovit occupation of Eastern Poland in late 1939, and of the Baltic States in 1940

Gosplan

• Thrown into chaos when purges created shortages of qualified personnel

• Good managers, specialists and technicians were purged

Steel production

• Emphasis on rearmament meant that steel production ceased

Consumer goods industry

• Once again put down as the lowest priority

Heavy industry

• Main beneficiary

• Strong growth in machinery and engineering

• However the picture was uneven and some areas did poorly

Resources

• Increasingly diverted to rearmament

• Spending doubled between 1938 and 1940 on rearmament

• Defence and armaments grew rapidly

• Huge growth in armaments industry with tanks, aircraft and pewpews produced that were the equal of anything produced elsewhere in the world

• But many industries found themselves short of raw materials

Overall

• Priority on preparing USSR for war which put USSR in somewhat good shape for the German invasion of June 1941

• Purges meant losing a lot of economic experts

When

1938-1941