History for the IB Diploma: Origins and Development of Authoritarian and Single Party States: SPS - Stalin's Russia Flashcards

First Five Year Plan: heavy industry

1st October 1928
Agriculture: collective Kolkhoz or state sovkhoz (half of livestock
killed in countryside)
Industry: steel from 3 mil tons to 6 - infrastructure (Magnitogorsk,
Dnieper dam)

Collectivisation

23% in 1930 to 53% in 1931

Famine bc 1stFYP

1932-34
R.Conquest 7 million peasants died

War Scare

1928 "socialism in one country

Shock Workers

Alexei Stakhanov: soviet Hercules

Second Five Year Plan: new industries

1933
consolidation - sucess

Third Five Year Plan: ARMAMENTS for WWII

1938
hindered by purges, war

J. Arch Getty on collectivisation

although responsible, strongly influenced by "social, economic
and political environment he did not create

D.R. Shearer

The economy was a "command-administrative" one but not a
planned one

Repression NKVD order

#00447 30th July 1937

First show trial Kamenev and Zinoviev

Aug-36

New Soviet Constitution

1936 more democratic