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🏭 Stalin's Five-Year Plans – A-level
History · A-level — practise the Five-Year Plans, collectivisation, dekulakisation, the famine and their impact on Soviet society.
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Questions
Which Soviet state body was responsible for drawing up the detailed targets of the Five-Year Plans?
The Comintern
Gosplan
The NKVD
The Komsomol
20s
In which year did the First Five-Year Plan officially begin?
1928
1921
1932
1924
20s
Alexei Stakhanov became a Soviet hero in 1935 for his record output in which industry?
Steel making
Textile weaving
Oil drilling
Coal mining
20s
How did Stalin respond to the grain procurement crisis of 1927–28?
Emergency requisitioning, the 'Urals-Siberian method'
Buying large grain imports from the West
Sharply raising state grain purchase prices
Expanding private trade under the NEP
30s
Magnitogorsk was built as a new industrial city mainly to exploit which local resource?
Gold for foreign currency
Oil for the chemical industry
Timber for export
Iron ore for steel production
30s
The White Sea–Baltic Canal (1931–33) was built largely by which workforce?
Gulag prisoners
Komsomol volunteers
Red Army conscripts
Foreign contract engineers
30s
What was the immediate effect of Stalin's article 'Dizzy with Success' in March 1930?
Collectivisation was made compulsory by law
Grain requisitioning was abolished
Kulaks were readmitted to the kolkhozes
Many peasants left the collective farms
30s
Dekulakisation in 1930 split kulaks into three categories. What happened to those in the third category?
Deported to Siberia or Kazakhstan
Allowed to join the local kolkhoz
Resettled on poorer land in their own region
Shot or sent to labour camps
30s
During the 1932–33 famine, the decree of 7 August 1932 ('Law of Spikelets') imposed harsh penalties for what?
Failing to attend Party meetings
Slaughtering livestock
Theft of collective farm property
Leaving a kolkhoz without permission
30s
Which priority came to dominate the Third Five-Year Plan (1938–41)?
Rearmament and defence industries
Mechanising collective farms
Consumer goods and housing
Light industry for export
20s