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What type of man was the socialist man that Stalin wanted to create

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The type of man who was publicly engaged and committed to the community

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What would the socialist man have a sense of and what would he give to the state

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A sense of social responsibility and would willingly give service to the state

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Why did class based attacks continue in earnest in Stalin’s rule

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Due to his decision to halt the NEP

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What agenda was there in Lenin and Stalin’s time in creating new polcicies (socialist manG

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The outcome had to be an environment in which the socialist man could flourish

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Did the harsh living and working conditions experienced in Lenin’s time persist through Stalin’s rule

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They got worse in Stalin’s early years

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Why did living and working conditions get worse in Stalin’s early years

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Peasants were herded into collectives and more emigrated to towns

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What did the drive for industrialisation bring to workers

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7 day working week and longer workers hours

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What could arriving late or missing work result in

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Dismissal, eviction from housing and loss of benefits

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What became criminal (workers)

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Damaging machinery or leaving a job without permission

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Were strikes illegal

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Yes

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When were wage differentials, bonuses and payment by the piece introduced

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1931

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What did the introduction of wage differentials etc produce

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A more diverse proletariat

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What did it mean that workers were allowed to choose their place of work

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They could move to improve their lot, while disciplinary rules were eased

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Examples of propaganda campaigns which increased socialist competition

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Stakhanovite movement

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What did the Stakhanovite movement produce

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A new proletarian elite

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16
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Why did Stalin’s industrialisation produce new opportunities for social advancement

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  • more peasants moved to towns
  • more town workers became managers
  • more children of workers benefitted from educational oppuritinies
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17
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What reduced the numbers competing for jobs and created plenty of vacancies at the top

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Stalin’s purges

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18
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What did Stalin announce in 1993

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‘Life has become better, comrades, life has become more joyous’

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What we’re living condiditons like in the countryside

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Primitive

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Living conditions in towns

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  • workers lived in cramped communication apartments with inadequate sanitation
  • public transport overcrowded, shops empty
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21
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When did real wages increase

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In second 5 year plan

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What were wages in second five year plan still lower than

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Still lower in 1937 than they had been in 1928

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When was rationing phased out

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1935 but market prices were high

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24
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What could those in positions of importance in socialist system obtain

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More goods more cheaply

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25
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What did Stalin revert to in 1930s with women

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More traditional policies

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26
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What drove Stalin’s reversion to more traditional policies with women

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Fall in population growth

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27
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Women: what became the focus of a new propaganda wave

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Family

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Women: how was Stalin’s portrayed in new family propaganda wave

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As a father figure and ideal family man

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Women: what was attacked under new propaganda wave

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Divorce and abortion

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Women: importance of what re-emphasised under family campaign

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Marriage

Wedding rings reintroduced and new style wedding certificates issued

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Women: in what new way were women portrayed in films and art

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Muscular, plain dressed women who helped to build soviet Russia in 1920s and more feminine family woman with adoring children

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32
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Women: when were a number of meandered introduced which reversed earlier changes

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1936

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33
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Women: what was introduced in 1936 to deter divorce

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Larger fees and added penalties that men would be expected to contribute 60% income in child support

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34
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Women: what was criminalised 1936

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Adultery

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35
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Women: when was contraception permitted

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Only on medical grounds, banned if not

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36
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Women: who were financial incentives offered for

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Large families
Tax exemptions granted for families of 6 or more and there were bonus payments for every additional child to 10 in the family

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Women: growth in female industrial workers 1928-1949

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1928 3 million

1940 13 million

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38
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Women: what percentage of industrial workforce was female by 1940

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43%

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Women: what was introduced to help women cope with work and family

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Growth in provision of state nurseries, crèches and careens and more child clinics

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Women: how much less did women earn than men

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40%

Higher administrative posts held by men

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41
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Women: did divorce and abortion rate remain high

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Yes still over 150,000 abortion’s to every 57,000 love births

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Education: what was encouraged for less able

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Increasing amounts of practical work encouraged

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Education: what did the bulk of expansion and secondary and higher level involve

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More formal teaching so as to develop the skills needed in a modern industrial society

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Education: what did many schools become the responsibility of

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Collective farms/town enterprises

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45
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Education: what were universities seen as

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Agencies for delivering economic growth

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46
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Education: who were universities put under control of

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Veshenka

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47
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Education: what system was abandoned in 1935

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The quota system and selection reappeared for all

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Education: what type of education existed for the selected

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Rigid academic curriculum, formal teaching, report card tests and uniforms

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49
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Education: what were the core subjects

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Reading writing and science 
30% time devoted to Russian language and literature 
20% maths 
15% science 
10% soviet style history
50
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Education: what was introduced into middle and higher schools

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Nationalism promoted and military training jntroduced

51
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Education: to what profession did the Stakhanovite movement extent to

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The teaching profession

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Education: what were teachers encouraged to do under Stakhanovite movement

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Set high targets for themselves and their students

53
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Education: what could happen to teachers if students failed to do well

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Teachers could be blamed and purged

54
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Education: what percentage of 9-49 age groups in towns were literate by 1941

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94%

55
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Education: in what field were the USSR turning out strong graduates

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Science

56
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Youth organisations: what was RKSM renamed in 1926

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Komsomol

57
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Youth organisations: what was the age range of Komsomol extended to include

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Children from 10-28 years

58
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Youth organisations: what percentage of eligible youth had joined Komsomol 1926

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Only 6%

59
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Youth organisations: what did Komsomol teach

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Communist values

60
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Youth organisations: what was discouraged under Komsomol

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Smoking drinking and religion

61
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Youth organisations: What was encouraged under Komsomol

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Volunteer Social work, sports, political and drama clubs

62
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Youth organisations: what did young pioneer palaces serve as

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Community centres for children

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Youth organisations: when did Komsomol become directly affiliated with the party

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1939

64
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Youth organisations: what did members of the Komsomol take a path to live, study and fight for

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The fatherland ‘as the great Lenin has instructed’ and ‘as the communist party teaches me’

65
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Youth organisations: what was the name of the youth newspaper

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Komonsolskaia Pravda

66
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Youth organisations: what did komonsolskia Pravda encourage

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Young people to protect family values and respect their parents

67
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Youth organisations: how did membership of Komsomol and young pioneers offer chance for social mobility and educational advancement

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The uniform singles these young members out and helped smooth their educational path

68
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Youth organisations: what was opposition to komsomol like

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Small number of secret oppositional youth organisations

Direct confrontation between organisations and state authorities rare

69
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Religion: what was worship restricted to in 1929

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Registered congregations

70
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Religion: what prevented a holy day of church attendance from 1932

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Introduced of an uninterrupted 7 day work week

71
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Religion: what did Stalin’s 1936 constitution criminalise the publication of

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Religious propaganda

72
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Religion: when did priests regain the vote they had lost in 1918

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1936

73
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Religion: what was confiscated from Muslims during and after civil war

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Muslim property and insitutiotins confiscated and sharia courts abolished

74
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Religion: what did confiscation from Muslims produce

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A split within Islamic church

‘New mosque’ took pro soviet line

75
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Religion: when were pilgrimages to Mecca forbidden

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1935

76
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Religion: what led to backlash in central Asian Muslim communities 1935

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Frequency of prayers, fasts and feasts reduced and wearing of veil forbidden

77
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Religion: what was the fate of many Muslim priests

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Imprisoned/executes

78
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Religion: what did the anti religion drive also extend to

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Buddhists and the Armenian and Georgian churches

79
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How many churches and mosques closed by 1941

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C- 40,000

M- 25,000

80
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Religion: what strengthened religious belief

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Attacks during period of collectivisation and purged

81
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National minorities: what were soviet Jews given in 1926

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A special national homeland settlement in which they could maintain their cultural heritage

82
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National minorities: where was national homeland for Jews and what did it become in 1934

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In far eastern province and became an autonomous republic in 1934

83
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National minorities: what year were anti Semitic laws abolished

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1917

84
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National minorities: which language became acceptable

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Yiddish but Hebrew didn’t because of religious connotations

85
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National minorities: what did Stalinist policy in 1930s veer towards

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Greater centralisation and less tolerance of the ethnic groups as he sought to create a single ‘soviet identity’

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National minorities: what happened to the leaders of the different republics that formed the USSR if they deviated from the path laid down in Moscow

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They were purged as bourgeois nationalists

87
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National minorities: from when did Russian become the only language used in the red army

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1938

88
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National minorities: what happened despite propaganda which proclaimed the ‘family of nations’

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Russians were firmly at the head

89
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National minorities: when did Stalin begin his deportations of non Russians

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In the 1930s

90
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National minorities what was also revived in the 1930s

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Anti Semitic attitudes especially in rural areas

91
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Natuonal minorities: what were the motivations behind most of the campaigns

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Politically rather than racially motivated

92
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Propaganda: why did Stalin rely heavily on propaganda

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To harness support for collectivisation and industrial policies

93
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Propaganda: what reinforced the socialist message

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Pictures of happy productive workers

94
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Propaganda: example of heroes who were extolled as role models to copy

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Stakhanov

95
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Propaganda: what was every new initiative sold as

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The inspiration of the all knowing leader

96
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Propaganda: what did posters often show

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Karl Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin in continuous progression, bringing enlightenment to Russian people

97
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Propaganda: throughbwhat associations did Stalin strengthen his own position

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Those made between himself and Lenin

‘Stalin is the Lenin of today’

98
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Propaganda: what did some peasants have in their homes

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A red corner of the great leaders

99
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Propaganda: why did a cult of personality for Lenin grow under Stalin after Lenin’s death

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Stalin wanted to appear as his disciple

100
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Propaganda: how was Lenin being treated in the late 1920s

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Like a god, whose words held the answer to all Russian problems

101
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Propaganda: what did Stalin insist about Lenin’s body

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That it be embalmed and Lenin’s tomb be turned into a shrine

102
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Propaganda: what did Petrograd become

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Leningrad

103
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Cultural change: when was literature, art, architecture etc considered valuable

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Only if it supported socialist ideology and the creation of the new socialist man

104
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Cultural change: what kind of art had no place in the soviet state

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Art for its own sake

105
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Cultural change: what were writers expected to be

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Engineers of the human soul

106
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Cultural change: from 1932, what did all writers have to belong to

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The union of soviet writers

107
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Cultural change: what did the union of soviet writers exert control over

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What was created and who was allowed to create

108
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Cultural change: what was individual expression deemed

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Politically suspect

109
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Cultural change: what did the new norms demand adherence to

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The doctrine of socialist realism

110
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Cultural change: what did socialist realism mean according o the writers

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The truthful, historically concrete representation of reality in its revolutionary development

111
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Cultural change: what does socialist realism mean in simpler terms

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Writers were not to represent soviet life exactly as it was at the time, they were to show what it might become

112
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Cultural change: what were literature and art used to show

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How the march to communism was inevitable

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Cultural change: who was the frame of reference for writers laid down by

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Andrei zhdanov

114
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Cultural change: when was the frame of reference for writers laid down

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April 1934 at first congress of union of soviet writers

115
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Cultural change: what were works expected to glorify

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The working man, and particularly communities working together and embracing new technology

116
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Cultural change: era of

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Happy endings

117
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Cultural change: what did the mid 1930s see a ruthless attack on

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The avant-grade

118
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Cultural change: what did Pravda produce a damning critique of in 1936

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Dmitry shostakovichs opera lady Macbeth of mtensk

119
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Cultural change: what was Shostakovich accused of

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Leftist distortions

120
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Cultural change: what was there no attempt to create

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A new proletarian culture which was in any way distinct from the upper class/bourgeois culture of ore revolutionary era

121
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Cultural change: what kind of culture was promoted

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Folk culture

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Cultural change: what did the folk theme tie in well with

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Stalin’s commitment to national values and praise for Russians great heritage

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