Stalin's Economic Policies

What were Stalin's economic policies commonly known referred to?

• Three Year Plans

• Four Year Plans

• Five Year Plans

• Six Year Plans

Which of the following were the correct aims of Stalin's economic policies?

[Choose 2 reasons]

• Wanted to achieve the same economic and military levels as the Western powers

• Wanted to be powerful and destroy all the Western powers

• Wanted Soviet Union to be self-sufficient and militarily strong

• Wanted Soviet Union to be economically independent and not trade with other countries

Which of the following aspects of the economy did the Five Year Plans focus on?

• Industry and Trade

• Industry and Agriculture

• Agriculture and Trade

• Trade and Fishing

Which of the following aims and processes are accurate of rapid industrialisation?

[Choose 3]

• Support the mechanisation of farming to improve production

• Hundreds of factories were built as industrial cities expanded

• Recruit more farmers for the bigger farms

• Change all the existing industries

• Quotas of production and wages were set by the government

Rapid industrialisation focuses on the heavy industries. Which of the following are examples of heavy industries?

• coal

• textile

• wood

• steel

What was a significant positive impact of rapid industrialisation?

• All farms were transformed to become factories

• All industries produced sufficient goods to trade for food

• Production of consumer goods decreased

• Production of heavy industries increased

What was collectivisation?

• All similar industries became merged into a bigger company

• Smaller farms were merged into bigger state-owned collective farms

• Allowed famers to sell their crops at a fixed and high price to the government

• Crops were all collected at the state-level to maximise the profits of the farmers

Which of the following were accurate of the aims and processes of collectivsation?

[Choose 3]

• Secure food supply for the workers in the cities

• Force all farmers to go into the cities to work in the factories

• Equipment like tractors were provided by the state to the collective farms

• Shock workers were sent to countryside to force peasants to join collective farms

• Export crops to other countries to buy more crops for farming

What was the kulaks' _{(aka rich, land-owning peasants)} reaction to the policy of collectivisation?

• They enthusiastically joined the collective farms

• They volunteered to become shock workers for the state

• They decided to burn or hid their crops and killed their own animals

• They protested to the police and the courts against the introduction

What was one significant negative impact of collectivisation?

• Food production dropped drastically

• Food production increased tremendously

• More factories were built instead of farms

• More farms became collective farms