Culture & Society Flashcards
Church
Other Religions
Women
june 1936 family code
abortion = illegal contraception only for med reasons
tax breaks for 6/m children & bonus for every extra child under 10
div = expensive & adultery = crime
birth rate dec 25% 1928-32 loss mils in famine youth crime prostitution homeless orphans bc of broken fams
Impact of Great Retreat
abortions dec 1935 = 1.9 mil = 570k 1937 - 1939 755k
births dec even when inc never reached pre rev
nums of female w’s inc = 13 mil 1940 3 mil 1928
divorce rate 37% mos 1934
housework & childcare not shared
divorced women m likely to be unemployed
Young People
1920s edu focused on ideology X scientists etc - S wanted m academically rigorous
1930s = trad edu - tech subjects & prac skills
1935 quota system abolished & selective schools for m able - rigid curriculm promo nat & mili training in pre war yrs = disci & exams
Veshenka control
teachers have higher status = watched & could arrested encour Stak & could be purged if students X
1941 = 94% literary rate towns & 86% in country
Komsomol
Skilled Working Man
Un skilled Working Man
Urban Positives
Urban Negatives
Rural Positives
Rural Negatives
Socialist Man & Woman
Impact of Cultural Change
Similarities & Differences to Lenin