Domestic policies Flashcards
(13 cards)
1
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first 5 year plan
A
1929-32
- massive increase in industrial output
- created proletariat
- morepeasants moved from country to city
- iron and steel production
- electircal power stations
- infrastructure
2
Q
second/third 5 year plan
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- shifted production to heavy industry (iron and steel)
- transport
- rearmment
- militarization
- compared with hitler
3
Q
5 year plan issues
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- inconsiscienty with work force
- lack of education
- wokers resistant
- overworking
=fixed with purges and education programmes
4
Q
economic aims
A
- increase military strength
-achieve autarky
-collectivization
industriliztion
increase grain supply
5
Q
veskena
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supervised nationalized industry
6
Q
gosplan
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control community/commanding height of industry
-state planning commitee of economy
7
Q
collectivization
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‘government owns all natural recources and industries’
- stalin wants state control of land
- farms collectivized (80% of population peasants)
- collevtive farm; Kolkhozi
- refusal to collevitize; results in punishment/gulag
- army of ‘party activists’ sent to ‘motivate people’
- grain requisitioned
- immigration controlled by internal passports
8
Q
industrilization
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three 5 year plans labour discipline slave labour (gulags) propaganda; used to exagarrate success,, stakhovonite, censor failiures and cause fear by gulag education increases
9
Q
labour discipline
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labour discipline; harsh laws to punish late/absent works
crime to break machinery
10
Q
social aims
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- improve standards of living
- restore conservative values of women and family
- education and stalinization of values
11
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education
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- free and compulsory
- shorter days
- stalin as father as people
- bolshevik/stalinist values
- ‘20 rules for student behaviour’; indoctrination and obedience
- youth organizaiton
- math and science courses; engineers and industry
- literarcy rates icnrease
12
Q
women policies
A
great retreat
restore traditional values
abortion made illegal (resulted in illegal abortions)
divorce discouraged
women given medals for birthing 10+ children
trained as pilots/combat duties
free healt service
13
Q
religious policies
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russian othordox church discriminated against
- stalin athiest; opposed religion and wanted ccommunism as only ideology
- took away churchs’ right to marry people (state control)
- churches were attacked and vandalized; demonization of churrhc
- priests sent to gulags
- however; during WWII religion made a comeback to comfort public and underground churches existed
