2.3- Command Economy (Socialism)

What was the intended purpose of the new state agency formed in the Soviet Union?

• To promote competition and anarchy of production

• To increase profits for the capitalist monopolies

• To minimize risks and extract maximum profits

• To begin work on the statewide planning of the national economy and to have control over the implementation of these plans

What did Lenin note about the replacement of capitalist production relations under socialism?

• They are replaced with a planned national economy, in which the proletarian state becomes the regulating force

• They are replaced with a market economy to promote competition

• They are replaced with a system of profiteering

• They are replaced with a state-monopoly capitalist system

What was the primary advantage of the planning mechanisms in the Soviet Union compared to capitalist planning?

• Minimization of risks for the capitalist monopolies

• Maximization of profits for the capitalist monopolies

• Participation of the masses of workers in management

• Promotion of competition and anarchy of production

What was the first plan of strategic importance in the world that held popular nationwide support in the Soviet Union?

• Syndicalism

• Perestroika

• Kosygin reforms

• GOELRO

What did the construction of GOELRO achieve in the Soviet Union?

• Increased production of automobiles

• Increased production of electricity from 2 to 13 billion kWh in 19 years

• Increased production of cement

• Increased production of computer systems

What did the participation of foreign specialists in the USSR contribute to?

• Training of Soviet workers and engineers

• Weakening of the role of the CPSU

• Promotion of capitalist interests

• Alienation of workers from the control of the means of production

What did the Kosygin reforms focus on?

• Profitability as the cornerstone of production

• Maximization of risks for the capitalist monopolies

• Promotion of competition and anarchy of production

• Minimization of profits for the capitalist monopolies

What did the weakening of the class struggle ultimately lead to in the Soviet economy?

• Steady gradual increase in capitalist deviations

• Strengthening of the proletarian state

• Minimization of risks for the capitalist monopolies

• Promotion of competition and anarchy of production

What did the construction of socialism in the USSR continue with the employment of regularly held meetings on production?

• The worker’s collectives exercising control over both the administration at the enterprise

• The weakening of the role of the CPSU

• The promotion of capitalist interests

• The alienation of workers from the control of the means of production

What did the syndicalist phenomenon in the late years of the USSR lead to?

• Strengthening of the proletarian state

• Resistance against the centralization of the means of production

• Minimization of profits for the capitalist monopolies

• Promotion of competition and anarchy of production