Housing

Question 1

Why is there not much information on housing under Alexander II and III?

Answer 1

The first consensus was only done in 1897

Question 2

How did Emancipation of the serfs affect the population of cities?

Answer 2

once freed many of the serfs went to towns and cities to find jobs in factories

Question 3

What did redemption mean in terms of housing for the serfs?

Answer 3

they had to pay large sums of money therefore could not afford better houses

Question 4

When did urbanisation become more rapid?

Answer 4

1897

Question 5

When did cities double in size?

Answer 5

1917

Question 6

What occurred due to overcrowding?

Answer 6

spread of diseases

Question 7

What were houses made out of before WWI?

Answer 7

wood

Question 8

When was the installation of sewers?

Answer 8

1911

Question 9

What was the decree of peace and who was it introduced by?

Answer 9

Lenin

focused on Russia’s property where land was taken away from private owners and handed to peasants

Question 10

What were Kommunalkas?

Answer 10

mass community living in which people could afford to live in cities

Question 11

What was Stalin’s policy in terms of housing?

Answer 11

was to allocate space rather than rooms to families

Question 12

What was the result in terms of housing after WWII?

Answer 12

25m Russians were left homeless and depopulated Russia

Question 13

What did communal living enable people to now do?

Answer 13

afford to move the city and work in factories

Question 14

What did Khrushchev introduce?

Answer 14

a big planning development of cheap pre-fabricated houses

Question 15

When did the housing stock double?

Answer 15

1955-64

Question 16

What info did the consensus of 1897 collect?

Answer 16

marriage 
births
deaths
places where people lived
social

Question 17

Because transport links were slow to develop what did that push Nicholas II to create?
Was it effective?

Answer 17

houses and living conditions at factories for people to work and sleep
it was effective in terms of improving industrialisation - but living conditions were overcrowded and disease spread rapidly

Question 18

When was the decree of peace made?

Answer 18

1917

Question 19

What were housing cooperatives and when did they appear?

Answer 19

They were organisations with employees in the same work place that got first pick of some new houses if they met government set prices

Question 20

In terms of rural housing, what did Stalin do?

Answer 20

built small special housing blocks on collective farms

Question 21

What drove people away from the country under Khrushchev?

Answer 21

collectivisation and poor living conditions

Question 22

In terms of rural housing, what did Khrushchev do?

Answer 22

built agro-towns