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Flashcards by samstevenson2014, updated more than 1 year ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Who drew up targets to be met? | State Planning Committee: Gosplan |
| What year were the first five year plans drawn up? | 1928 |
| What were the targets for expansion? | Heavy industry |
| What were the sectors set to grow? | Iron Production Coal Production Electric Power |
| Were the targets met? | No but they were impressive |
| What date parameters was the seconds Plan? | 1932-7 |
| Was it successful? How successful? | Yes Many sectors doubled production |
| What did it place more emphasis on? | Consumer goods (shoes/clothes) |
| What was set up beyond the Urals? Why? | Tank factories Because Hitler was strengthening Germany |
| When did the third plan begin? | 1937 |
| What was it interrupted by? | The purges |
| What happened in 1941? | The Germans invaded |
| What did the plan continue to emphasise? | Military expansion |
| What did workers get if they exceeded their targets? | Prizes |
| What didn't absentees get? | Rations |
| What encouraged people to work hard? | Propaganda about making the world or the Soviet Union great |
| What was introduced to stop workings moving from job to job? | Internal passports |
| Describe living conditions | Bad. Huge apartment complexes built with just a room for each family |
| What was free to the families? | Cheap entertainment, education and health care |
| What were in Siberia for those who did not want to work there? | Hundreds of labour camps |
| The results of the Five Year Plans were... Why? | ...spectacular By 1939 the USSR had become Europe's second industrial power behind Germany |
| Industrialisation produced... | urbanisation |
| What percentage of Russians lived in cities by 1940? | 30% |
| What were the three main features of Stalin's economic policy? | 1. No private property 2. Farming was on huge state-owned collective farms 3. Centrally planned economy |
| What percentage of Russians were illiterate by 1940? | 15% |
| How was university access controlled? | Exam results and political views |
| Did students have a choice of career? | No |
| What were artists told to produce? | "social realism" celebrating achievements of socialism |
| What did Stalin call what we introduced in 1936? | "the only throughly democratic Constitution in the world" |
| What did it mean? | O18's could vote for Congress every four years |
| Who could only put up candidates? | Communist Party |
| What kind of state was Stalin's Russia? | Totalitarian |
| Who spied on everyone? | The secret police (NKVD) |
| What did Stalin cultivate? | A Cult of Personality |
| How were history books re-written? | To emphasise his role in 1917 revolution |
| What about his image? | It was everywhere and propaganda encouraged Russians to see him as their protector and revere him almost as a god |
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