Second Five Year Plan (jan 16, 1933 – dec 16, 1937)

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Days irrelevant.
- heavy industries still dominated but emphasis placed on communications
- 4500 enterprises/new projects opened (i.e. Dnieper Dam)
- electricity production expanding rapidly
- USSR virtually self-sufficient in many areas by 1937
- copper, zinc and tin mined for the first time
- consumer goods improved but still lacking
- oil production didn't make expected advances
- wages at about 8% of the 1930s levels

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