Stalin and the USSR
Mindmap for Stalins rule of Russia, control, 5 year plans, collectivisation and GOSPLAN
- Created by: James Robinson
- Created on: 26-03-13 10:45
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- Stalin and the USSR
- 5 Year plans
- 1st 5 year plan 1928-1932
- Focused on heavy industry
- Coal, Iron, oil etc
- Targets set by Gosplan
- Most targets not met
- Whole cities built to exploit natural resources
- Magnitogorsk- Siberia. Huge steel city
- Focused on heavy industry
- 2nd five year plan 1933-1937
- Heavy industry still key
- Also focused on electricity
- Transport & communications boosted
- Canals, railways &Moscow underground built
- Tractors and agricultural machinery increased
- Heavy industry still key
- 3rd five year plan 1938-1941
- Originally meant for luxury, consumer goods
- Weapons when Germany invaded
- Interrupted by WW2
- Originally meant for luxury, consumer goods
- 1st 5 year plan 1928-1932
- GOSPLAN
- Set up in 1921 by Lenin
- Set overall targets for an industry
- Each region told its targets
- Region set targets for each mine/ factory
- Manager of each mine/ factory sets targets for each foreman
- Foreman sets targets for each shift and person
- Manager of each mine/ factory sets targets for each foreman
- Region set targets for each mine/ factory
- Each region told its targets
- Target setters
- Targets unrealistic and ambitious
- Factory managers often lied about output to reach targets
- National statistics not reliable due to this
- Factory managers often lied about output to reach targets
- Control
- Purges
- 1/3 army officers murdered
- Anyone considered a threat purged
- Most important people purged
- 1938- 8 million people in Gulags
- Show trials
- People bitched personal enemies in
- Cult of Stalin
- History rewritten around Lenin and Stalin
- Learnt about in schools
- History books left out Stalins enemies
- Propaganda made Stalin look like a father figure
- "Father of the people"
- Distanced himself from Purges
- People believed in him
- History rewritten around Lenin and Stalin
- Secret police
- NKVD
- Arrested people in the night
- Tortured and threatened suspects
- Purges
- Kulaks and Collectivisation
- Collectivisation
- Introduced in 1929 (optional)
- Soon became compulsory
- Offered incentives, still not popular
- Intended to
- Reinstate communism in Agriculture
- Make efficient use of tractors and fertilisers
- Increase production to fuel 5 year plans
- Asked to grow production materials rather than food
- Couldn't feed families
- Unpopular
- Peasants didn't like giving up heritage
- Or communist leader controlling land
- Peasants didn't like giving up heritage
- Introduced in 1929 (optional)
- Kulaks
- wealthy under NEP
- Didn't want to give up wealth
- Many burnt crops
- Refused to give up land and livestock
- Arrested
- Gulags
- Burnt and slaughtered stock rather than give it up
- Caused famine
- Arrested
- Collectivisation
- 5 Year plans
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