Cultural Revolution Flashcards
What was the aim of the cultural revolution
Create a ‘New Soviet’ person
How did Stalin infiltrate culture
Firing of Non-Marxist educators, architects and artists
How many workers entered higher education during the first 5YP
150,000
What name is given to those who grew up in the Cultural Revolution
Brezhnev Generation
Who resisted Bolshevik attacks on the church
Peasants
What was the Kosomol
A Bolshevik youth group aimed at ages 14-28
In 1927 how many were in the Kosomol
2 million
What was the RAPP
Russian Association of Proletarian Writers
What was contained within the Family Code of 1936
Ban on abortion
Divorce made harder
Fixed child support
Mothers with 6 children were payed
What was the rise in birth rate per 1000 people between 1935 and 1940
Increase of 6%
What was the great retreat
Turn a turn to traditional conservative values
When was the RAPP abolished and what replaced it
April 1932
Union of Soviet writers (1934)
Who was the first president of the Union of Soviet Writers
Gorky
