FIVE YEAR PLANS

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FIVE YEAR PLANS
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AIMS

• To look at the Five Year Plans and how they were
  organised.
• To analyse the success or not of the Five
  Year Plans.

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HOW WERE THEY ORGANISED?

• Centrally planned.
• Centrally imposed targets.
• Backed up by law.
• Peoples Commissariats responsible for plans.
• Heavy Industry, Light Industry, Timber, Food.

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PARTY SET TARGETS
The Party had a grip on the economy at all levels.
COMMISSARISAT SET SPECIFIC TARGETS AND
INSTRUCTIONS
REGIONAL ADMINISTRATORS HAD TARGETS
AND INSTRUCTIONS FOR THEIR REGION
SOMETIMES COMMISSARIAT DEALT DIRECTLY WITH
FACTORY
One-person Management
INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISE
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FEATURES OF THE PLANS

• Emphasis on Heavy Industry.
• Help USSR become more self-sufficient less
  vulnerable.
• Consumer goods downgraded sacrifice.
• Plans always declared complete early.
• Huge industrial centres created.
• Spectacular projects.
• Some foreign participation.

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ACHIEVEMENTS

• Work through pages 179-183.
• Complete a table for your chosen plan.
• Feedback to the rest of the group.

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TASK

• Stalins economic policy was rapid
  industrialisation at any costAssess the
  validity of this view with reference to the
  control and development of Soviet industry and
  agriculture in the years 1929-1941. (20
  marks)June 2004