Stalin's 5 year plan's
The Five Year Plans
SUCCESSES
FAILURES
The improvements in production between 1928 and 1937 were phenomenal: Coal - from 36 million tonnes to 130 million tonnes.
Iron - from 3 million tonnes to 15 million tonnes. Oil - from 2 million tonnes to 29 million tonnes. Electricity - from 5,000 million to 36,000 million kilowatts.
Poorly organised – inefficiency, duplication of effort and waste.
The Soviet Union gave opportunities to women - crèches were set up so they could also work. Women became doctors and scientists, as well as canal diggers and steel workers.
Many of the workers were slave workers and kulaks from the gulag. Strikers were shot, and wreckers (slow workers) could be executed or imprisoned. Thousands died from accidents, starvation or cold.
Housing and wages were terrible, and no consumer goods were produced for people. The USSR was turned into a modern state. There were huge achievements in the following areas: new cities, dams/ hydroelectric power, transport & communications, the
Moscow Underground, farm machinery
Electricity, coal, steel, fertilizers plastic, no unemployment, doctors & medicine education.
Appalling human cost, poor housing, secret police, slave labour and no human rights. Labour camps (for those who made mistakes) Accidents and deaths (100,000 workers died building the Belomor Canal)
1ST Five Year Plan (October 1928 - December 1932)
SUCCESSES
Production of raw materials increased substantially. Estimated to have caused the Russian economy to grow around 14% a year.
1st 5 Year Plan was compared with the economic achievements of Tsarism and the
NEP.
In terms of iron, steel, coal and oil, the 1 st 5
Year Plan outperformed any previous economic state.
Social mobility – Urban population trebled as peasants moved to cities to take unskilled jobs in Soviet industry. Existing members of the working class were also promoted. Many became managers of the new Soviet industries, or were retained as engineers or administrators. Education
SUCCESSES
FAILURES
The improvements in production between 1928 and 1937 were phenomenal: Coal - from 36 million tonnes to 130 million tonnes.
Iron - from 3 million tonnes to 15 million tonnes. Oil - from 2 million tonnes to 29 million tonnes. Electricity - from 5,000 million to 36,000 million kilowatts.
Poorly organised – inefficiency, duplication of effort and waste.
The Soviet Union gave opportunities to women - crèches were set up so they could also work. Women became doctors and scientists, as well as canal diggers and steel workers.
Many of the workers were slave workers and kulaks from the gulag. Strikers were shot, and wreckers (slow workers) could be executed or imprisoned. Thousands died from accidents, starvation or cold.
Housing and wages were terrible, and no consumer goods were produced for people. The USSR was turned into a modern state. There were huge achievements in the following areas: new cities, dams/ hydroelectric power, transport & communications, the
Moscow Underground, farm machinery
Electricity, coal, steel, fertilizers plastic, no unemployment, doctors & medicine education.
Appalling human cost, poor housing, secret police, slave labour and no human rights. Labour camps (for those who made mistakes) Accidents and deaths (100,000 workers died building the Belomor Canal)
1ST Five Year Plan (October 1928 - December 1932)
SUCCESSES
Production of raw materials increased substantially. Estimated to have caused the Russian economy to grow around 14% a year.
1st 5 Year Plan was compared with the economic achievements of Tsarism and the
NEP.
In terms of iron, steel, coal and oil, the 1 st 5
Year Plan outperformed any previous economic state.
Social mobility – Urban population trebled as peasants moved to cities to take unskilled jobs in Soviet industry. Existing members of the working class were also promoted. Many became managers of the new Soviet industries, or were retained as engineers or administrators. Education