Stalin

• When was the First 5yp?

  1928-1932
• Successes of the First 5yp

  Electricity production x3, coal and iron x2
• Failures of the First 5yp

  Little growth in consumer identity, chemical targets not met
• When was the Second 5yp?

  1933-1937
• Successes of the Second 5yp

  USSR self-sufficient, chemical industry grew
• Failures of the Second 5yp

  Consumer goods low, oil production didn't meet targets
• When was the Third 5yp?

  1938-1941
• Successes of the Third 5yp

  Increase in heavy industry, defence and armaments due to oncoming WWII
• Failures of the Third 5yp

  Steel output grew insignificantly, oil production didn't meet targets, factories ran short
• What year was collectivisation introduced?

  1928
• What was collectivisation? 


  Merging smaller farms with bigger farms
• Consequences of collectivisation


  Decline in cattle, shortage of meat and milk, famine
• How much did grain harvest decrease between 1928 and 1934?

  73.3 million to 67.6 million tonnes
• When was the Fourth 5yp

  1946-1950
• Successes of the Fourth 5yp

  High levels of industrial growth
• How much did industrial output grow between 1945-1950?

  80%
• Who was appointed head of the NKVD in July 1934?

  Yagoda
• Who was appointed head of the NKVD in 1938?

  Yezhov
• What was Yezhovschina?


  Terror attacking party, army, industry and collective farms
• How much of the male population was arrested by the NKVD?

  10%
• When was the Leningrad Affair?


  1949
• What form of art emerged in the 1930s?

  Socialist Realism
• What did art focus on under Stalin?

  The FYPs and the working man
• What did the dissidents do?

  Celebrated Lenin and not Stalin
• Who's works were purged from libraries in the 1930s?

  Zinoviev, Kamenev and Trotsky
• What became the focus for proaganda in 1945?

  Stalin's role as Generalissimo
• What did Stalin do with religion during WW2?

  Made a pragmatic alliance with the Orthodox Church
• What did Stalin order during the Collectivisation process?

  The closure of churches
• How many women worked in the Soviet industry in 1928?

  3 million
• What did the number of working women increase to in 1940?

  13 million
• By 1940, how many of the workers in heavy industry were women?

  41%
• By 1945, how many women served in combat roles?

  800,000
• How many university students were women in 1930s?

  28%
• When was the Marriage code introduced?

  1926
• What was criminalised in the 1930s?

  Homosexuality, contraception, abortion
• What was part of Stalin's harsh labour discipline?

  Criminalised lateness, strikes banned, lost right to negotiate, criminalised damaging factory property
• How much did the industrial workforce increase from 1945-50?

  8 million to 12 million
• How much did infant mortality decline in 1940-50?

  50%
• How much did the number of medical doctors increase from 1947-52?

  2/3
• Why did sickness rates not fall?

  Food shortages, poor housing, poverty