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Name: _________________________ Stalin’s 5 Year Plans for Industrialization Stalin realised that if the USSR was to become a key player in the global market, the country needed to industrialise rapidly and increase production. To do this, Stalin introduced the Five-year Plans. Stalin's chief aim was to expand industrial production. For this, he developed three Five-year Plans between 1928 and 1938. Gosplan, the state planning agency, drew up targets for production for each factory. The first two plans concentrated on improving heavy industry - coal, oil, steel and electricity. Some keen young Communists, called Pioneers, went into barren areas and set up new towns and industries from nothing. There were champion workers called Stakhanovites, named after a coal miner who broke the record for the amount of coal dug up in a single shift. Education schemes were introduced to train skilled, literate workers. But the improvements in production between 1928 and 1937 were phenomenal: Coal - from 36 million tonnes to 130 million tonnes Iron - from 3 million tonnes to 15 million tonnes Oil - from 2 million tonnes to 29 million tonnes Electricity - from 5,000 million to 36,000 million kilowatts http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/russia/stalinfiveyearplansrev1.shtml Directory: files -> 2015 2015 -> Cold war, and describing the truman doctrine 2015 -> Read and annotate this handout 2015 -> Who was Napoleon Bonaparte? 2015 -> Mr. Keith Powell >Mr. Newman Eleventh Grade us history 2015 -> Draft Buildings that Breathe Design Guide 2015 -> Geoterms ethnic group: a group of people in a country who share a unique culture and identity nation 2015 -> Something about magellan 2015 -> Comparison of the English Revolution and French Revolution Your assignment: Part One Download 2.44 Mb. Share with your friends:
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