Economy Under Khrushchev

• How many Moscow ministries were abolished under Khrushchev

  60
• What was an aim of Khrushchevs? 


  decentralisation
• How many economic regions was the USSR divided into under Khrushchev?

  105
• The 105 economic regions had their own economic councils called? 


  Sovnarkhoz
• What did Sovnarkhoz do?

  Planned for economic affairs
• When was the 7 year plan?

  1959-65
• What occured during the 7 year plan?


  space race victory - yuri gagarin first man into space
• Consumer goods production increased under what plan?

  the 7 year
• What years saw the lowest industrial growth in peacetime?

  1963-64
• When did Russia test the first inter-continental ballistic missile?

  1957
• how many enterprises were transferred into state control between 1954-55?

  11,000
• Khrushchev promised 40 hour working weeks and a % wage rise by...?

  40%, 1965
• When was the red flag placed on the moon?

  1959
• All industrial changes were conducted under what slogan by Khrushchev?


  "Catch up and overtake the USA by 1970"
• Retail value of Russian goods increased from 50m in 1955 to what by 1965?

  105m by 1965
• khrushchevs economic policies closed what gap?

  the gap between the USSR and USA
• What did Khrushchev do that weakened the Russian economy?

  Spent heavily on armaments
• Consumer industries only experienced % growth?

  2%
• What was Khrushchevs primary policy?

  Virgin lands scheme
• How many hectares of Virgin lands had been ploughed by 1956?

  36m
• How many volunteers were mobilised for the virgin lands scheme?

  300,000
• What did Khrushchev believe would solve the grain problem in the USSR

  Virgin lands scheme
• What did Khrushchev hold above all other crops?

  Corn
• Why did Khrushchev want to focus on corn across the country?

  to feed cattle
• What was the problem with corn?

  It hardly ripens anywhere but the Ukraine
• How many acres of crops were planted for corn under the VLS?

  85m
• Of the 85m acres planted, what fraction were harvested ripe?

  1/6
• What are astrocities?


  huge collective farm towns
• What was an attempt to replicate urban conditions of work and living on the land to improve efficiency?

  the creation of agrocities
• When were machine tractor stations abolished?

  1958
• What was a downfall of Khrushchev regarding agriculture?


  Interferred too much with campaigns forced upon farms
• Half of the 125m tonnes of grain produced in 1956 came from ...?

  the virgin lands scheme
• What did the virgin lands scheme lead to in 1956

  the largest soviet harvest in history
• a failure of the VLS?

  Crop yields from 1956 never reached that level again
• why were results of Khrushchev's plans mixed

  he had too many initiatives with too little thought
• What made soil less fertile by the 1960s?

  single crop cultivation