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Five-year Plan (given profound problems how was expansion accomplished…
Five-year Plan
given profound problems how was expansion accomplished
significant minority of workers were committed to the goal of soviet progress (1927)
Younger workers committed to SOviet state
Stalinist propaganda very efficient
abandoned wage equality: skilled workers paid more
1935: Stakhanovite movement- exceptional workers rewarded (e.g. accommodation and better pay)- other workers felt compelled to work harder
Socialist competition
competition between workers to increase production
Main objectives
Industrial growth and increasing production
heavy industry
USA economy
Expansion: industrial plant
Production went up but low quality
ideology
achieve abundance and plenty
expand industrial labour force
Alex Nove- 20% of workers fully engaged with soviet ideals
Military security
war scare 1927
Soviet success in WW2 1942 onwards: based largely on
Abudence of unskilled peasant labour
1932 state introduce the tsarists internal passports (could only leave a area if they had a passport
to increase production and reducing skilled workers moving
1931 restoring bourgeois specialists to factories
first five-year plan
No planning
Arbitrary target setting
No management infrastructure- means by which expantion could be planned
Waste
overproductiom
No guarantee that manages were able to secure raw material- factory managers were obliged to horde raw materials
Machines broke down + no spare parts-