Industrialisation: successes and failures (Edexcel GCSE History): Flashcards
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Five-Year Plans time period
Five-Year Plans time period
1928-1941
Main focus of Stalin's industrialisation
Main focus of Stalin's industrialisation
Heavy industry
Coal production 1928 to 1936 (million tonnes)
Coal production 1928 to 1936 (million tonnes)
35.4 to 64.3 million tonnes
Electricity production 1928-1936 (billion kilowatts)
Electricity production 1928-1936 (billion kilowatts)
5 to 13.4 billion kilowatts
Iron production 1928-1936 (million tonnes)
Iron production 1928-1936 (million tonnes)
3.3 to 6.2 million tonnes
Example of new industrial town built
Example of new industrial town built
Magnitogorsk
Effect of industrialisation on unemployment
Effect of industrialisation on unemployment
Eliminated
Source of labour for construction work
Source of labour for construction work
Slave labour from Gulag prisoners
Impact on living standards despite production growth
Impact on living standards despite production growth
Failed to improve
Reason for poor quality goods
Reason for poor quality goods
Focus on meeting quantity targets, not quality
Reason for false production reporting
Reason for false production reporting
Managers feared punishment for missing targets
USSR society: transformation from → to
USSR society: transformation from → to
Peasant society to industrial nation