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16 Cards in this Set
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Priorities - heavy industry |
Coal, oil and steel - basic decisive branches of industry Lay foundation of future industrial development Unskilled peasants matched production of large quantities of raw materials |
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Priorities - desire to create a strong Russia |
Prized physical over mental health |
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Economy grew at |
14% per year |
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Out produced any previous economies |
Iron, coal, steel and oil |
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Urban population |
Trebled |
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Working class promoted |
Managers Retrained as engineers or administrators |
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Education reformed |
Encouraged attendance of classes in technical subjects Universities more accessible |
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Proletariat advancement programme |
Replace bourgeois specialists with 150,000 red specialists |
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Official targets never met |
Dead of being demoted, sacked or executed as enemies of the State |
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Quantity not quality |
Many items effectively useless |
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Focus on production not consumption |
Lots went to waste |
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Living standards |
Sustained by rations Queueing major feature of life 7 day working week |
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Work life |
Unsafe Lateness criminalised and strikes outlawed Broken machinery - capitalist saboteurs - labour camps |
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Absents and |
Low productivity |
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White coal |
No rights, starved or froze to death Many of the work force |
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Abolishing of free market |
No consumer goods Black market |
