22 - Economic and Social Developments

• 'WWII destroyed _% of industrial capcity'

  70
• 'The USSR faced a _ _ _ as it policed it's new _ _'

  Huge defence budget, satellite states
• '_ _ came to an abrupt end'

  Lend Lease
• 'Stalin refused territories under Soviet influence to recieve - _ _'

  Marshall Aid
• 'Instead he established _ _ and _ _ to link Eastern Europeans that formed soviet bloc economically'

  Cominform 1947, Comecon 1949
• '_ coordinated two more _ _ _ following the same target methods that had been used before the war'

  Gosplan, 5 year plans
• Aims of 4th 5 year Plan:

  • Catch up with USA
  • Rebuild heavy industry and transport
  • Revive Ukraine
• Why was Ukraine important?

  1/3 expenditure allocated
• Details of the 4TH 5 Year Plan:

  • Wartime controls on Labour
  • Grand Projects - canals and HEP plants
• Results of the 4th 5 year Plan:

  • USSR -> 2nd industrial capacity
  • Most Heavy industry targets
  • Production doubled
• 'Urban workforce increased from _ to _ (_ to _)

  67,77,1941, 1952
• 'By the end 1947, _ _ power station in action again Industrially stronger than pre-war'

  Dneiper Dam
• Aims of the 5 Year Plan:

  • Continue heavy industry and transport under Malenkov
  • Goods, housing and services more investment
• Details of the 5th 5 Year Plan:

  • Resources rearmament for Korean War 1951 - 53
  • Malenkov reduced expenditure of military, heavy industry
• Results 5th 5 Year Plan:

  • Growth targets met
  • National income increased 71%
  • Malenkov lost leadership 1955
• What did Malenkov propose?

  Light industry
• What proposals of Khrushchev did Malenkov criticise?

  Agricultural
• What was the problem with the Ministers of Moscow?

  Out of touch with situation on ground
• What did the Ministers of Moscow do?

  Set industrial targets for each enterprise
• 'There were _ _ administrators to make the system work properly'

  too few
• '_ were not being efficiently used, increasing amounts of _ _ needed to even stand still'

  resources, capital investment
• Were Khrushchev's industrial reforms all his own ideas?

  No
• What year was Sixth 5 year plan launched?

  1956
• What was wrong with 6th 5 Year Plan?

  Over optimistic, abandoned 2 years
• How many moscow ministries were abolished after 6th 5 Year Plan?

  60
• 'The USSR was divided into _ regions'


  105
• 'Each region had its own local economic council - _ - to plan and supervise _ affairs'

  • sovnarkhoz, economic
• What did 6th 5 Year Plan remove?

  Malenkov men
• '_ _ setup to supervise 7 year plan in _'

  Economic Council, 1959
• How long was a working week in 7 year plan?

  40
• How much did wages rise in 7 year plan?

  40
• What was the slogan for the 7 year plan?

  'Catch up and overtake the USA by 1970'
• What was the shift in priorities from?

  Heavy industry to modern industries
• At what event did Soviet technology amaze the world?

  Brussels World Fair 1958
• '_ _ expanded and _ corporation was subsidised'

  Air transport, aeroflot
• In 1957, what did the USSR do in space?

  Sputnik, laika
• What year did USSR put a red flag on the moon?

  1959
• What was the icebreaker Lenin and when launched?

  Nuclear Ship, 1959
• 1961, who was the first human in space

  Gugarin
• 1955 - 1965, coal increase?

  391, 578