E2: Stalin Economic Transformation

Question 1

Quote of Stalin about being 100 yrs behind

Answer 1

We are 50-100 years behind the advanced countries.

Either we make good the difference in 10 years, or they will crush us.

Question 2

What years did the Five Year plans span?

Answer 2

1928-1941

Question 3

Statistic to say after “working conditions severe”

Answer 3

For every 19 tonnes of steel produced in Stalinist period, 1 Soviet citizen was killed.

Question 4

Alexei Stakhanov

Answer 4

Produced 102 tonnes coal in one shift : 31 Aug 1935

Question 5

Statistic about machinery production result

Answer 5

By 1932, machinery production increased fourfold.

Question 6

Stat about oil

Answer 6

Oil production more than doubled from 11.7 mil tonnes in 1928 to 28.5 in 1937.

Question 7

Name or new town built + what it centered on

Answer 7

Magnitogorsk; iron and steel works

Question 8

Stat about how many ppl employed in Magnitogorsk

Answer 8

By 1939, 45000 ppl

Question 9

Example of canal + length

Answer 9

White to Baltic Sea ; 400 km

Question 10

Stat about secondary school

Answer 10

No’s in schools grew six times between 1928-1938

Question 11

Stat about women workers

Answer 11

By 1940, 40% of workers were women

Question 12

Stat about population shift

Answer 12

Urban working class trebled from 11 mil in 1928 to 33 mil in 1938

Question 13

Stat about Russia as world power

Answer 13

By 1940, Russia second most industrialized , after America , theee places up its position previous the plans

Question 14

How many families would work in a kolkhoz

Answer 14

50-100

Question 15

Years of collectivization

Answer 15

1927 1940

Question 16

Stat of voluntary collectivization not working

Answer 16

By 1929 less than 10% had volunteered to join kolkhozy

Question 17

When did Stalin begin to use force for collectivization

Answer 17

Late 1929

Question 18

Secret police

Answer 18

OGPU

Question 19

When was the famine

How many killed

Answer 19

1932-33 ; 5-10 mil ppl

Question 20

What was stalins policy in Ukraine known as

How many killed

Answer 20

Extermination by hunger ; Holodomor

5 mil

Question 21

Stat majority of farms collectivized

Answer 21

By 1936, 90% of farmland collectivized, forming 250,000 kolkhozy

Question 22

Stat for grain production

Answer 22

It took til 1940 for grain production to return to pre ww1 levels

Question 23

Stat for livestock

Answer 23

Livestock fell from 70.5mil 1928 to 57 mil in 1937.

Question 24

Stat of ppl leaving countryside

Answer 24

By 1930s, 17 mil ppl left to towns where workers sold cheap grain by govt