3rd 5 year plan

Question 1

3rd 5 year plan date
who replaced who as the head of Gosplan?
what did they do?

Answer 1

1938-1941
Kuibyshev replaced by Vosnesenky
Set about reconstructing organisation

Question 2

Hinderances:
Drafting process:
winter:
consumer:

Answer 2

Drafting process heavily affected by purges as Gosplan functionaries were purged
winter was harsh
invetment shifted away from consumer goods

Question 3

Successes:
armaments
tractor plants
strategy

Answer 3

armaments industry up by 250%
tractor plants successfully converted into tank production
Industry strategically developed East of the Ural mountains in anticipation of invasion from the west

Question 4

Failures:
By 1940, steel production had only reached __% of what was planned, and rolled metal only __%
oil
who suggests an explanation for these failures?

Answer 4

By 1940, steel production had only reached 5.4% of what was planned, and rolled metal only 1.4%
oil industry didn’t make expected advances and resulted in a fuel crisis

Alec Nove suggested that the ongoing effect of the purges and the deployment of thousands of Soviet Union engineers as forced labour in prison camps

Question 5

Failures: Society
increase in expenditure drove up what?
what was a result of this?

Answer 5

collective farm free market prices

office retail prices increased as a result, so the working day was longer.