Stalin's Russia (1924-41) POLICY (3) Flashcards
Agriculture
- collectivisation
- dekukakisation
Collectivisation
smaller farms being collated into larger collectives
feed the urban working class
aim to remove NEP
from 3% in collectives to around 58%
Collectivisation March 1930
slackened
able to opt out = mass exodus
became a forced practice
Renewed Collectivisation
50% brought into a Kolkhozy
end of 1937 = 93%
blocks of MTS (motorized units)
more freedoms allowed to K plot owners
impact
1929 = 67m grain tonnes
1939 = 75m tonnes
disliked = contributed to famine
Dekulakisation
aimed to create peasant class warfare
Plenipotentiaries - instilled fear
kulak houses stripped bare
Kulak classification
Fortunate = reallocated and deported
Standard = robbed and sent to camps
Malicious (Zlostnye) = shot
Liquidation
1-3m families deported
30,000 shot (1928-30)
Industrial policies
- 5 year plans
- economic autarky
main 5yp aims
- autarky
- industrialise in order to create a modern military
aims of the 7 5yp
abandon NEP
state control / centralised planning
set production targets
Gosplan
targets stipulated by key officials
Gosplan = planning commission
industrial commissariats =
(4 sectors)
implemented by regional managers
1st 5yp
didnt run its full course - struggled
2nd 5yp
economically successful
during Nazi non-aggression pact
Policy effects (industry)
Elec = (M/KW/HR) 43.3 increase
Oil = (M/ton) 20.5 increase
- overall major increases
