Failures of the Plans

Question 1

1. What were the four main failures of the plans?

Answer 1

1. Production problems, consumer goods, black market & Housing and Living conditions.

Question 2

1. Production _______ was low.
   - Many materials produced were ________.
2. What % of produce was wasted in some industries?
   - What was this due to?
3. What decreased the effectiveness of production (GOSPLAN)?
4. What else made economic management harder?

Answer 2

1. Quality.
   - Useless.
2. 40%.
   - Lack of co-ordination between factories.
3. Unrealistic targets by GOSPLAN.
4. Falsified data.

Question 3

1. What did Stalin prioritise over consumer production?
2. 1928-41, consumer goods were ________.
   - This led to what in the 1930s?
3. In Leningrad during 1938, how many people were reported to be queuing for clothes and shoes?

Answer 3

1. Industry and defence.
2. Rationed.
   - Severe shortages.
3. Over 6,000.

Question 4

1. What did the Black Market thrive on?
   - What did workers do?
   - How did they cover this up?
2. The Liubertsy District in Moscow had ______ residents, but _ bathhouses.
3. Where did the majority of workers live in Magnitogorsk?
4. Living conditions in 1928 and 41 were poorer than when?
5. How many days a week did workers work?
   - Absenteeism and lateness was?

Answer 4

1. Shortages of the plans.
   - Steal and sell workplace materials.
   - Through falsified paperwork.
2. 650,000 residents but 0 bathhouses.
3. Shacks or huts.
4. The best years of NEP.
5. 7 days.
   - Criminalised.