Five year plans

Question 1

Define Gosplan

Answer 1

This was the state planning committee established in 1921

Question 2

What was Gosplan previously known as?

Answer 2

Veshenka

Question 3

What was the purpose of Gosplan?

Answer 3

It set control figures to monitor production of each industry the figures would be the targets of the 5 year plans

Question 4

when was the first five year plan?

Answer 4

October 1928 - December 1932

Question 5

When was the second five year plan?

Answer 5

January 1933 - December 1937

Question 6

When was the third five year plan?

Answer 6

January 1938 - June 1941

Question 7

What were Stalin’s 3 priorities of the first five year plan?

Answer 7

1. the creation of heavy industry
2. needed more raw materials in order to develop
3. Remarmament in the case of war

Question 8

Give a success of the first five year plan in relation to increasing production

Answer 8

The first 5 year plan outperformed any previous economic system

Question 9

Under the first five year plan how much did Russian economy grow per year?

Answer 9

by 14%

Question 10

How did oil production improve under the first five year plan?

Answer 10

in 1913 production was 9.2 million tonnes per year. by 1933 it was 21.4 million tonnes

Question 11

How did coal production improve under the first five year plan?

Answer 11

In 1913 coal production was at 29.1 Million tonnes per year and by 1932 it was at 64.3 million tonnes

Question 12

Give 4 success of the first five year plan in relation to social mobility

Answer 12

urban population trebeled
education was reformed
workers attended classes
university was made more accessible

Question 13

Give 2 failures of the first five year plan in relation to meeting targets

Answer 13

Many of the official targets were never met

When the targets were fulfilled the goods were of low quality and not used

Question 14

What was the iron target and what was production level in 1932?

Answer 14

target: 8.0
produced: 6.2

Question 15

what was the steel target and production level by 1932

Answer 15

Target: 8.0
Production: 5.9

Question 16

Give three failures of the first five year plan in relation to living and working conditions

Answer 16

1. stalin introduced a 7 day working week
2. labour discipline was harsh
3. many of the workers were prisoners who errr forced to work

Question 17

Give 3 ways in which labour discipline was harsh

Answer 17

1. Lateness was criminalised
2. strikes were outlawed
3. If a worker broke machinery they could be accused of being a saboteur

Question 18

What was the vision for magnitogorsk

Answer 18

Planners wanted to build a steelworks and entire city from scratch in an uninhabited part of Russia that was rich in iron ore, workers would live in clean and modern accomodation

Question 19

How many workers arrived to Magnitogorsk?

Answer 19

250,000

Question 20

what was the reality for workers upon arriving at Magnitogorsk?

Answer 20

few houses were actually built so many lived in mud huts and wooden shacks

Question 21

On average, after how long did workers leave Magnitogorsk to find other work?

Answer 21

82 days

Question 22

Who was Alexei Stakhanov?

Answer 22

A miner from stalinist propaganda used to encourage workers to work harder to meet production targets

Question 23

What was the story of Stakhanov?

Answer 23

He was a miner who propaganda said produced 14 times the output of a normal miner. he was rewarded with 200 roubles, a new apartment etc

Question 24

What can we conclude from the Stakhanovite propaganda?

Answer 24

His story was merely a bait to encourage the Russian work force to work even harder to fulfill the five year plans