34 - Social And Cultural Developments, 1945-64 Flashcards

1
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What standards were there very little improvement of in social life under Stalin?

A

Living standards

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2
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What 2 areas remained few, poor and in short supply during social life under Stalin?

A

Consumer goods

Housing

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3
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How many working hours per day remained the norm within social life under Stalin?

A

12 hours a day

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4
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How much smaller was the pay of a Kolkhoz worker compared to a factory worker?

A

1/6 smaller

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5
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What was Stalin determined to make Soviet culture superior to? What did this anti-Westernism shape in Russia’s art?

A

Liberal Western culture

Policy

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6
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What values were workers and artists attacked for showing?

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“Bourgoisie”, non-Soviet values

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7
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What ideology was Khrushchev a “true believer” in? What was he determined to show?

A

Communism

It could achieve a better life for people

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8
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What 2 areas did Khrushchev give priority to? Why did he especially do this?

A

Consumer goods
Housing
To show the Soviet Union compared with the West

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9
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What 2 consumer goods began appearing in Russian homes?

A

Fridges

TVs

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10
Q

Why were wage differences reduced? What wage was increased?

A

To ease the gulf between managers and workers

Minimum wage

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11
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What 3 groups did pensions expand to?

A

Elderly
Sick
Disabled

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12
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For what 2 reasons was pension expansion important?

A

Many were permanently injured from war

There were many one-parent families

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13
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What construction increased? How many people moved into homes from 1956-65?

A

Housing construction

108 million

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14
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What was an issue with the quality of housing construction? Why did this still change lives?

A

They were poorly made

People no longer shared accommodation

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15
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What 3 groups and facilities increased in society?

A

Doctors
Hospitals
Students in higher education

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16
Q

Who still only received privileges? What are 3 things they got access to?

A

Senior party officials
Special healthcare
Holidays
Cars

17
Q

What propaganda was stepped up? How many of all religious places of worship had been closed down?

A

Anti-religious propaganda

3/4

18
Q

What nationalities came under more control from Moscow? Who were the top jobs reserved for?

A

Non-Russian nationalities

Russians

19
Q

From where did it become easier to access news from? Where did many people tune into for trustworthy news despite its proscribition?

A

The West

Foreign radio stations

20
Q

What book was published in 1962? Who authored it?

A

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

21
Q

How long had Solzhenitsyn spent in a labour camp? Why did his book strike a chord with those who were recently released from camps?

A

8 years

It was a fictional account of his own experiences

22
Q

How many copies of Denisovich were sold in 6 months?

A

A million

23
Q

Who authored Dr Zhivago? Why didn’t it pass the censors?

A

Boris Pasternak

It was critical of the October Revolution

24
Q

When was Dr Zhivago published abroad? What Prize did Pasternak gain, but not allowed to accept?

A

1957

Nobel Prize

25
Q

What book circulated illegally around the Soviet Union? How many attended the author’s funeral in 1960?

A

Dr Zhivago - Pasternak

Thousands

26
Q

To whom was the Soviet Union now open to?

A

Western tourists

27
Q

What Festival did Moscow host in 1957? How many people attended from 131 different countries?

A

World Festival of Youth

34,000

28
Q

What was one aim of the World Festival of Youth? What were the youth won over by that the foreigners brought over?

A

To win over the youth with the Soviet way of life

The Western way of life - jeans and jazz

29
Q

Why was Western culture more appealing than Soviet culture?

A

It wasn’t as conformist as Komsomol

30
Q

Why was Khrushchev particularly keen to engage young people? What was the most ambitious idea he came up with?

A

To reawaken the enthusiasm of the early Revolution years

Mobilising the youth into the Virgin Lands scheme

31
Q

What does Historian Orlando Figes say the regime could no longer count on?

A

“It could no longer count on fear”

32
Q

What does Historian Martin Sixsmith say the target of “beating the Americans” was intended to do?

A

“The target of ‘beating the Americans’ was intended to boost production”