Changes in rural housing

Question 1

Did rural housing under the Tsars remain the same?

Answer 1

Yes

Question 2

Rural housing under Tsars

Answer 2

single room wooden hut heated by an oven, animals also housed in the hut
cold damp unclean cheap to construct

Question 3

What policy under Stalin changed rural housing?

Answer 3

Collectivisation

Question 4

How did collectivisation change rural housing?

Answer 4

individual landholdings integrated into state farms

Question 5

What were the state-controlled farms under Stalin called?

Answer 5

Kolkhozes and Sovkhozes

Question 6

What rural housing did Khrushchev construct?

Answer 6

self-contained agro-towns

Question 7

What was Khrushchev’s aim with agro towns?

Answer 7

to merge several collective farms into larger units and to relocate the collective farmers in large rural cities

Question 8

What did farmers have to give up under Khrushchev?

Answer 8

private plots and farm animals

Question 9

standard of rural housing under Khrushchev

Answer 9

poor as it was quickly and cheaply built
overcrowded
public health problems

Question 10

Why did displaced kulaks suffer the worst conditions?

Answer 10

dumped in barracks or given tent accommodation in a field