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The 5 Year Plans, 1928-32 - Coggle Diagram
The 5 Year Plans
1st 5YP
STATS
- began October 1928
- had a strategy of economic growth as the Soviet Union had a low industrial output in 1928
- the Soviet Union need to industrialise fast and catch up with the West
- the industrialisation and modernisation would be funded for with the surplus earned from collectivisation => paid for machinery and industrialised the cities
GOALS
- to industrialise the Soviet Union and therefore catch up with the west
- wouldve been a shift from the NEP and thus a step forward to a more socialist and communist society
- would increase the self sufficinecy within the country
- would also increase military strength in the case of a threat of war => WW2 was approaching
SUCCESSES
- increase in steel production => went from 4mil tonnes to 6mil tonnes throughout its duration
- goal production increased
- soviet industrial output grew by 118% percent => all the while western countries were xperiencing a massive dowturn due to the great depression
- increase on hevay industry
- consumer goods saw an 80% increase
- capital goods saw a 160% increase
- overall immense eocnomic growth
- the work force doubled (peasants leaving to escape collectivisation)
overall the first 5YP achieved its goal of industrialising the soviet union, making it an economic and industrial power => Stalin himself declared it a success and thus believed it completed his own goals
The soviet union's victory over germany proves that they did in fact build a stronger military through the 5YP
FAILURES
- it didnt officially meet any of its original targets so they had to be revised
- 7 million died from famine (was. consequence of the rapid industrialised and collectivisation) => more died within labor camps
- quality of life decreased by a lot and saw a lot of housing problems => notably due to the influx of people in the cities not only escaping collectivisation but looking to reap of the benefits of the newly industrialised cities
so success or not?
the soviet union grew and industrial production grew, it fulfilled its goal of rapid industrialised albeit with a significant human cost => short term failures (can argue this point of view and use the next point as a rebuttal) but long term success
success to completing its aims even if the numbers have been slightly exaggerated and targets often revised not to mention the human cost
1933-38
2nd 5YP
INFO:
- it concentrated on water, road and rail transport
RESULT:
the second was not as successful,
- failed to reach the recommended production levels in such areas as the coal and oil industries.
- The second plan employed incentives as well as punishments and the targets were eased as a reward for the first plan being finished ahead of schedule in only four years.
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