Stalin Economic Flashcards
(13 cards)
1st 5 year plan
1928-1932
Aim to increase productivity 300% , eletrification 6%
1st 5 year plan outcomes
product - aim - ouctome
Coal 75million 35 to 64 million
Steel 10 million 4 to 5.9 million
collectivisation decree
December 1927: The 14th Congress of the Communist Party formally adopted the policy of collectivizing agriculture
State farms
Kolkhoz - peoples farm, 75 peasants in cooperative
sovkhoz - State farms
1930 - 58% live on collecitve
1941 - 98% live on collective farms
1932: 90% of all farmland in the Soviet Union was collectivized.- 2.5million housleholds
De - Kuhlakisation
27th December 1929 - Party speech to ‘liquidate’ class
6-18 million kuhlkas exiled
1930 - 50000- killed
Famine (Holodomor):
1932-1933: 8 million people died due to starvation, particularly in Ukraine,
Decrease grain supply 6 million
2nd 5 year plan
1933-1937
Builds Moscow metro and volga canal
1937 ussr self sufficent for metals
Steel 3x coal 2x
3rd 5 year plan
1938-42
Focus on re aremenent
50% of industrial output was directed toward military
-stagnation of results
Total outcomes
1928-37
coal 35 to 130
steel 4-17
grain harvest
pre ww1 =95 million tonnes
1946=60 million
1948=70 million
record
102 tonnes coal in 6 hrs
Impact of ww2
Productions falls 50% by 1942
but post war
-steel rises by 50%
electifcation 60%
so is able to recover
impact ww2 on coal
1938- 166 million tones
1945- 150 million tonnes