Question

Describe the economic weakness in the Soviet Union.

Answer 1

Answer:

Stalin's Five Year Plans focused on heavy industry and the military. Production of consumer goods was set far below actual demand. And although Soviet planners increased production of consumer goods after Stalin's death (1953), it never approached demand.

Explanation:

Answer 2

Answer: The economic weakness in Soviet Union are:-

- One of the problems was the difficulty of managing a centrally-planned and managed economy.

- It did not cope well with the complexity of a growing, diversifying economy. As a result, high economic growth rates in the early postwar period flattened and declined, practically to zero before the Union disintegrated.

- Economically, the Soviet system simply did not generate sufficient wealth to sustain its political, social and economic ideals as well as provide the needs of its people.

- One factor is that the Soviet economy never recovered from the collectivization of agriculture. As a result, agriculture did not provide a surplus to help finance industrialization.