sucess

• Economic output after 1929

  • Enormous leap
  • Growth of industrial enterprises was staggering
• 1st Five Year Plan

  1. Around 1,500 major power stations, factories, and metal-working complexes built

  2. Existing industries expanded dramatically

  3. New industries such as machine-tools, aircraft, and synthetic rubber established
• Production figures soared, and thousands of miles of railways and canals were built
• Number of workers doubled between 1928 and 1932
• FYP created industries in previously unindustrialized areas across the USSR
• New industries east of the Urals were key in the Soviet counterattack and victory during WWII
• FYP


  • Harnessed enthusiasm, especially among the young
  • Stakhanovite movement enabled workers to voice opinions on working conditions and critique unsympathetic managers
  • Workers felt greater legitimacy for the political system due to their involvement (R. Thurston, Life and Terror in Stalin's Russia, 1996)
• Output raised by 6 million tons of steel, which was 50% up from the starting figure, despite being short of the 10 million ton target