Impact of GPW on agriculture and industry complete

Question 1

What fraction did the GPW kill regarding USSR population?

Answer 1

1 in 8

Question 2

Fourth Five Year Plan?

Answer 2

August 1945- ran by Gosplan- needed to aid economic recovery

Set ambitious targets for industry and agriculture

Question 3

Where was one third of expenditure from the Fourth FYP to be spent?

Answer 3

Ukraine as this area was important for agriculture and industry

Question 4

Mining production after GPW?

Answer 4

Running at less than 50% of what it was 1940s level

Question 5

Electricity and Steel impacts?

Answer 5

Elect- less than 52%

Steel- 45%

Question 6

When did foreign aid end?

Answer 6

August 1945

Question 7

USSR 1950?

Answer 7

Fourth FYP had been relatively successful - targets had been equalled and some succeeded- this was due to war reparations, central planning and committed efforts of the Soviet people

Question 8

Soviet economy ‘rebound effect’?

Answer 8

Economy was resilient, recovered from a long series of disasters

Question 9

Stats of production under Fourth FYP?

Answer 9

Elect production doubled

Steel went from 12.3 mil tons to 27.3

Question 10

How was the recovery after WW2 better than that after WW1?

Answer 10

There was improved production of consumer goods and a growth in the living standards

Question 11

Soviet incomes 1948?

Answer 11

Climbed back to where they were in 1938

Question 12

Problem of famine 1946-7?

Answer 12

Famine began in parts of the Ukraine and central Russia in July 1946- main cause = shortage of agricultural labourers and lack of machinery- intensified by a huge drought

Question 13

How did Stalin make the famine worse?

Answer 13

Grain was exported abroad instead of being used to relieve the famine crisis

Question 14

Problem with military expenditure?

Answer 14

Military spending was 18% of total expenditure, rose to 25% in 1953- due to army increasing to 4.9 million in 1953

Question 15

Social problem caused by GPW?

Answer 15

Acute housing shortages

Question 16

How many collective farms were ruined by the GPW?

Answer 16

98,000

Question 17

How many tractors ruined?

Answer 17

137000

Question 18

How many pigs and horses were lost?

Answer 18

Horses= 7 million
Pigs= 20 million

Question 19

What percentage was food levels at after the GPW?

Answer 19

60% of 1940 level

Question 20

What made agricultural production worse?

Answer 20

Lack of workers
Less land under cultivation
1946 driest year since 1891- poor harvest

Question 21

Impact of Fourth FYP on agriculture?

Answer 21

Brought about some increases but failed to reach its targets

Grain increased from 67 tons - 1947- to 92 tons - 1952- but was still not at 1940 level of 95 tons

Question 22

How did Stalin hold back reforms in agriculture?

Answer 22

Books were seen as promoting no change in 1952, continue with the regime