Living and working conditions under the communists- rural and urban housing

Question 1

What did the decree on peace issued by the Bolsheviks concern?

Answer 1

-focus on living conditions
-no more private owners- proletariat.
-some short lived improvement.

Question 2

What happened to the standard of housing under Stalin?

Answer 2

-overcrowding
-25% living in a room shared by two families
-25% in communal dormitories

Question 2

How did the Bolsheviks justify poor housing?

Answer 2

-sacrifice in the short term for the economy.

Question 3

How many million Russians became homeless after ww2 under Stalin?

Answer 3

-25 Million

Question 4

What did Khrushchev introduce to improve housing standards?

Answer 4

-housing programme.

Question 5

What was a worrying outcome of Khrushevs’s housing improvements?

Answer 5

-housing cooperatives (given first pickings- employees in same buildings)
-benefitted better off professionals who could afford loan and interest.

Question 6

Outcomes of Khrushchev’s housing programme?

Answer 6

-housing stock doubled
-communal living principles stopped.
-population happy

Question 7

What did Stalin change in terms of rural housing?

Answer 7

-special housing blocks on communal farms

Question 8

What did Khrushchev change in terms of rural housing?

Answer 8

-‘self contained agro-towns’

Question 9

What were the agro-towns like?

Answer 9

-cheaply constructed
-overcrowded
-Kulaks terrible- given acom in a tent in a field.