theme 2 - industrial and agricultural change

Question 1

What did the Worker’s control lead to?

Answer 1

INFLATION

Question 2

What was the aim of NEP 1921?

Answer 2

to boost economy by introducing capitalist elements

Question 3

What was the effect of war communism on agriculture?

Answer 3

1921 - production decreased 60% from 1913

Question 4

what were the political effects of war communism?

Answer 4

1920 -Tambov rebellion

1921 - Krondstad rebellion

Question 5

what were the consequences of NEP?

Answer 5

• corruption
• NEPmen (those who profited)
• end of famine
• 1926 industry back at 1913 levels
• free trade allowed peasants to grow more food

Question 6

When was the 1st 5YP?

Answer 6

1928-32

Question 7

What was the focus of the 1st 5YP?

Answer 7

heavy industry and rapid industrialisation
e.g. Magnitigorsk population 1920s - 200
1930s hundred thousands

Question 8

What was a failure of the 1st 5YP?

Answer 8

low productivity

Question 9

When was the 2nd 5YP?

Answer 9

1933-37

Question 10

What was the focus of the 2nd 5YP?

Answer 10

industry and mining for minerals as well as transport

Question 11

List successes of the 2nd 5YP

Answer 11

1935 - Moscow Metro

1935 - 50% increase in productivity due to higher pay

Question 12

When was the 3rd 5YP?

Answer 12

1938-41

Question 13

What were the focuses of the 3rd plan?

Answer 13

weapons for war (rearment)

Question 14

list successes of the 3rd 5YP

Answer 14

• rearment received 1/3 of government funding

- 1939 - 419 aircraft factories built

Question 15

describe failures of the 3rd 5YP

Answer 15

lack of quality steel for aircrafts

“flying coffins”

Question 16

define ‘tax in kind’

Answer 16

instead of paying tax in money it was paid with crops

Question 17

what was Holodomor?

Answer 17

the famine in 1932-3

Question 18

what was Veshenka?

Answer 18

the section of the party responsible for the nationalisation of industry

Question 19

What was ‘Gigantomania?’

Answer 19

Fitzpatrick said Stalin’s buildings were more about building the biggest rather than fixing the economy
e.g. the canal was too shallow for boats but was built to line it with Stalin statues

Question 20

Describe the Koysgin reforms

Answer 20

Kosygin was in charge of the economy and his reforms were very capitalist. Brezhnev sabotaged his reforms to seem the better option

Question 21

When does Khrushchev split the party into industrial and agricultural sections?

Answer 21

1962