leninist/ stalinist society Flashcards
when was class hierarchy officially abolished?
november 1917, titles and privileges disappeared and everyone became a plain citizen
what did the NEP admit about the bourgeois?
•it was an admission that soviet russia still needed bourgeois ‘specialist’ to bolster economic growth
•but it did not stop the campaign against the bourgeois ‘way of life’
the communists wanted to create a new type of man known as the…
•’socialist man’
•he would be engaged to the community and have a sense of social responsibility, willingly giving to the state
during the civil war how were workers freedoms restricted?
•internal passport were issued to stop workers from leaving their employment
•by 1921 workers could be imprisoned or shot if they failed to meet targets
what decrees to help women were issued after 1917?
•divorce was made easier and less expensive
•in 1920, abortion was legalised to protect against the high mortality rates produced by illegal abortions
•free contraceptive advice was provided
how did expectations of women change?
•women were not only given the right to work but they were expected to
•girls were given the same educational rights as boys
what did lenin set up in terms of education?
•the commissariat of the enlightenment
•provided free education at all levels in coeducational schools
by 1941 what percentage of people were literate in towns and countrysides?
•94% in towns
•86% in countrysides
when was the russian young communist league founded?
1918
when was the youth organisation renamed to the komsomol?
1926
when did lenin offer ‘self-determination’ to national minorities?
november 1917
what was the red terror?
bolsheviks fighting against oppositional forces
when was the red terror?
1918-1921
who were shot in 1918?
all the remaining social revolutionaries and mensheviks were shot, 500 in petrograd alone
why did the red terror escalate?
because the cheka wanted to take matters into their own hands
how many people were shot between the 1918-1921 period?
over 500,000
what excused the poor living standards under lenin?
the civil war
what were living conditions like under stalin?
low rations, poor housing and lack of consumer goods
when were internal passports re-introduced?
1932
