- March 1965 CC Plenum
- -Described past failures
- -Grain production down and barely prewar levels - e.g. only 573 kg per head compared to 540 kg in 1913
- Virgin land scheme ended
Industry 1960s
- Gosplan collated targets and plans that factories made and then put together the overall plans and targets
- Coal making loss of 16%
- Defence highly profitable
- Milk and fish broke even
- 1965 CC plenum - Kosygin announced abolition
1970s
- 9th Five Year Plan - 1971-75 - focus on consumer goods
- Goals not met but improvement
- 1980 85% of families had TVs
1973 - 'alliance of the working class with science' - failure
1974 - new targets on cost and profits
-Didn't take into account supply and demand
-Failure
Economy fact sheet -
- Brezhnev focused on re-establishing the economy
- Government was more centralised
- Aimed to improve living standards and focused on light industry
- He put the majority of the money into the military
- Lack of investment in agriculture
- Virgin Land Scheme continued over 10 billion rubbles invested in irrigation in central Asia
- There was still lots of corruption caused by targets set by Gosplan that were unrealistic
- Soviet Union signed a deal with the US in order to have access to better technology
- 1980s - Stagnation led to the decline of the USSR
- Grain production from 1914 to 1963 only went up by 30kg per heaf
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