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The Five Year Plans - Coggle Diagram

- - - - no major targets met, but they were highly unrealistic to begin with
  - - - house-building, food processing etc. neglected
        
        lack of skilled workers/effective management
- - - - promote the growth of light industry
        
        develop communications
  - - - overall they learned from the mistakes of the First Plan
    - - steel output trebled
        
        coal production doubled
  - - - still no decent increase for consumer goods
        
        continued emphasis on quantity over quality
- - - - rapid rearmament
        
        completing the transition to communism
  - - - rearmament spending doubled 1938-1940
  - - - oil failed to meet targets causing a fuel crisis
        
        material shortages
    - - lack of managers, specialists and technicians following the Purge
    - - Plan disrupted by the German invasion 1941
- - - - huge steel plant
      - acted as a showpiece of Soviet achievement
  - - - 22,000 died constructing it
- - - - some did well due to training programs/job vacancies from purges
        
        1931 wage differentials rewarded those who worked hard
        
        managers could award bonuses/better houses and pay by piece
    - - 7 day work weeks and long hours
        
        being late/absent could cause dismissal, eviction or loss of benefits
        
        damaging machinery/striking was illegal
      - real wages lower than 1928 in 1937
        
        forced labour in prison camps that often caused deaths