Stalin And The Economy

Question 1

Under the NEP there were high levels of what on the peasants

Answer 1

Tax

Question 2

What did high taxes under the NEP lead peasants to do

Answer 2

Hide grain and animals in order to avoid paying tax

Cultivate less land

Question 3

In 1927 what % of expected tax revenue did the government collect

Answer 3

80%

Question 4

When was the procurement crisis

Answer 4

1927/28

Question 5

What happened to the supply of grain in the cities during the procurement crisis

Answer 5

Dropped 30%

Question 6

When did the first year plan start and end

Answer 6

1928 to 1932

Question 7

What percentage of investment in the first five year plan was spent on heavy industry

Answer 7

80%

Question 8

In the first year plan what happened to the production of electricity

Answer 8

Trebled

Question 9

In the first year plan what happened to the production of coal and iron

Answer 9

Doubled

Question 10

In the first year plan what happened to the production of steel

Answer 10

Increased by 1/3

Question 11

In the first year plan what happened to consumer industries

Answer 11

Very little growth
Even a decline

Question 12

In the first year plan what targets were not met

Answer 12

Chemicals targets not fulfilled

Question 13

In the first year plan what was lacking

Answer 13

Skilled workers

Question 14

In the first year plan what was not developed sufficiently

Answer 14

Transport

Question 15

In the first year plan what did managers resort to to meet targets

Answer 15

Bribery
False accounting
Illegally taking resources destined for other factories

Question 16

In the second year plan what happened to the production of electricity

Answer 16

Continued to grow rapidly

Question 17

In the second year plan what did heavy industry benefit from

Answer 17

The plants which had been set up in the first plan and prestige projects continued such as the Dniepostroi dam

Question 18

How could you describe the USSR by 1937

Answer 18

Self sufficient in machine making and metal working

Question 19

In the second year plan what happened to transport and communication

Answer 19

Grew rapidly

Moscow underground system

Question 20

In the second year plan what was still lagging behind

Answer 20

Consumer goods

Question 21

In the second year plan what happened quality

Answer 21

Quantity over quality

Question 22

In the second year plan what happened to resources

Answer 22

Increasingly diverted to defence projects

Question 23

When was the 2nd five year plan

Answer 23

1933 to 1937

Question 24

What areas did the five year plans help significantly

Answer 24

Heavy industry - steel, coal, electricity and metal industries

Question 25

Where did most of the surplus grain come from

Answer 25

Peasants private plots

Question 26

1929-30 what percentage of the peasantry were part of the kulak class

Answer 26

Around 4%

Question 27

1929-30 how many peasant households were destroyed

Answer 27

15%

Question 28

1929-30 what did peasants do to avoid being labelled a kulak

Answer 28

Killed livestock and destroyed crops

Question 29

By march 1930 what percentage of peasant households had collectivised

Answer 29

58%

Question 30

How was collectivisation initially enforced? How did it change

Answer 30

Initially propaganda and force

Then voluntary

Question 31

Why did collectivisation switch to being voluntary

Answer 31

Mass opposition

Question 32

After the return to voluntary collectivisation what happened to the number of collectivised farms

Answer 32

Fell back to 20%

Question 33

How many kulaks were removed from their farms

Answer 33

10 million

Question 34

In opposition to dekulakisation what percentage of the pigs, cattle and sheep did the peasants kill

Answer 34

25-30%

Question 35

Why was the 1933-33 bad

Answer 35

One of the worst in Russian history

Largely man made

Question 36

When did Stalin begin to allow peasants to sell produce from their own private plots

Answer 36

1935

Question 37

By the end of the 1930s what percentage of the nations milk and meat came from private plots

Answer 37

Nearly 75%

Question 38

By the end of the 1930s what percentage of the nations wool, vegetables and fruit came from private plots

Answer 38

Nearly 50%

Question 39

By 1937 what percentage of peasant households had been collectivised

Answer 39

93%

Question 40

By 1941 what percentage of peasant households had been collectivised

Answer 40

100%