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Stalin and the Great Industry Buildup
By: Courtney Lark
Overview
• To build up the industry, Stalin created the five year plan. There were three five-year plans.
• First five-year plan (1928-1933)• Second five-year plan(1932-1937)• They both had some achievements
and some failures, but the first five-year plan was better.
Joseph Stalin
• Stalin was born in 1879 and later died in 1953.
• He was the leader of Russia.
• Since Russia was behind most of the other countries, he wanted to industrialized it.
• He surname was Djugasvili.
• He was a tyrannical leader
Stalin Cont.
• Stalin Quote: “We are 100 years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this lag in ten years. Either we do it, or they crush!”
• He believed along with Lenin that USSR should over take and outstrip the capitalist countries”
• The five year plan was use for propaganda.
How Achieved
• Workers were bombarded with propaganda, posters, slogans, and radio broadcast.
• Stalin attacked the Muslim faith
First Five-Year Plan
• Farmers and industry was forced to modernize• “Collective” (kulaks)• 1929-34 – the number of cattle dropped from 58
to 33.5 mil.• # of horses dropped from 32.6 mil to 17.3• Livestock didn’t reach their level until the mid
1950s • 1928 only 1.7% of the peasants were on
collective farms -March 1930 = 58%-End of 1930 = total of 99%
Second Five-Year Plan
• Russia was more productive
• Livestock went up but barely close to original
• Coal increased 150 mil tons by the end of the second plan
• Wheat increased at a good rate but later dropped close to 1938 (very little)
Success
• USSR was turned into a modern state/resist Hitler’s invasion
• There was genuine communist enthusiasm among the young pioneers.
• Improvements represented a massive jump forward
Huge Achievements
• Education • Coal • Farm machinery• Steel• Doctors and medicine• Transport and
communications
• Dams/hydroelectric power
• Electricity• No unemployment
(So jobs were available)
• New cities
Failures
• Poorly organized
• Some historians claims the tsars had the spade work setting up the basis for industrialization and Stalin’s effort had little effect.
Appalling Human Cost
• Discipline • Wages fell• No human rights• Slave labor• Camps• Poor housing• Few consumer goods
• Accidents and deaths (100,000 workers died building the Belomor Canal)
• Secret police
Significance to the War
• It was significant to the war because Russia became more industrialized. There was an increased in coal, steel, electricity, and oil. Ex. Coal can be used for the production of weapons and machinery. Steel can be used for production of armor. Electricity provide energy in the factories.
Poster
• “And We Will Defeat The Drought!”
http://www.freemediaproductions.info/Firezone/showthread.php?t=5602
Charts
Propaganda Poster
• “Peasants can live like a Human Being”
• Promising:– Enough to eat– Adequate clothing – Education– Electricity– Happiness– Latest consumer
goods
Bibliography
• Industry and the Five-Year Plans. Web. 23 Mar. 2010. <http://www.johndclare.net/Russ11.htm>.
• "Stalin." Stalin. Web. 25 Mar. 2010. <http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/Stalin.htm>.
• Stalin's 5 Year Plan. Web. 23 Mar. 2010. <http://www.freeessays.cc/db/21/emr152.shtml>.