Stalin's Five-Year Plans and Consequences

The video critically analyzes the success of Stalin's five-year plans, focusing on their impact on industrialization, living, and working conditions in the USSR. While the plans succeeded in rapidly industrializing the country, they led to poor living and working conditions due to an emphasis on heavy industry and central planning. The video compares these plans with the New Economic Policy, highlighting differences in economic systems. Despite challenges, the plans achieved significant industrial growth, exemplified by increased coal and steel production and transport development. The lesson concludes with a preview of the next topic on Stalinist social policies.

What was Stalin's primary goal with the Five-Year Plans?

• To promote foreign trade

• To improve living conditions

• To rapidly industrialize the USSR

• To increase agricultural output

How did Stalin view the industrial development of Western capitalist states?

• As a model to avoid

• As a threat to the USSR

• As a source of industrial techniques

• As irrelevant to Soviet goals

What was a major consequence of the emphasis on heavy industry during the Five-Year Plans?

• Abundance of consumer goods

• Shortages and rationing of consumer goods

• Improved living conditions

• Decrease in industrial output

Why did many peasants migrate to cities during the Five-Year Plans?

• To join the military

• To find better agricultural jobs

• To benefit from industrial investments

• To escape collectivization

How did the New Economic Policy differ from the Five-Year Plans?

• It emphasized heavy industry more

• It was implemented after World War II

• It was a mixed system with some privatization

• It focused solely on agriculture

What was a significant social change during the Five-Year Plans?

• Implementation of internal passports

• Abolition of rationing

• Introduction of universal healthcare

• Increase in rural population

Which sector saw the most success during the first three Five-Year Plans?

• Heavy industry

• Education

• Consumer goods

• Agriculture

What was one of the infrastructure achievements during the Five-Year Plans?

• Building of the Berlin Wall

• Expansion of the Suez Canal

• Construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway

• Opening of the Moscow Metro train lines

By how much did coal production increase from 1927 to 1940?

• From 50 million to 200 million tons

• From 50 million to 150 million tons

• From 35 million to 169 million tons

• From 35 million to 100 million tons

What was a key factor in the success of the Five-Year Plans?

• Importing foreign labor

• Efficient use of natural resources

• Focus on consumer goods

• Decentralized economic planning