FIRST 5YP

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  • Created on: 17-04-17 10:58
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  • First Five Year Plan, 1928-32
    • Nature of first plan
      • Planned economy
      • Focus on heavy industry-coal, iron, oil and steel
        • Industries produced raw materials-needed for economic development
        • Many peasants had no experience in industry
    • Successes of 5YP
      • Production
        • Grew 14% a year during plan
        • Output exceeded NEP
      • Social mobility
        • Problems in countryside-growing urbanisation
        • City populations x3
        • Gov invested in education and technology
    • Failures of 5YP
      • Quantity and quality
        • Production increased-targets not reachable
        • Focused on quantity rather than quality
        • Pressure on managers-many lied to avoid punishment
      • Living Standards
        • 7 day working week
        • Consumer goods became scarce
        • No heating or sanitation many places
      • Black market
        • Abolishment of free market
        • Black market set up to sell vodka, cigarettes and food
      • Slave labour
        • Peasants sent to labour camps

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