Pre-War - Social - Key Facts

Question 1

Stakhanovite Movement

Answer 1

A man who mined 104 tonnes of coal in the time of 14 miners

Question 2

Stalin’s announcement in 1933

Answer 2

‘Life has become better’

Question 3

Percentage of child support men were expected to contribute

Answer 3

60%

Question 4

Percentage of the workforce that were women

Answer 4

43%

Question 5

Percentage of women’s wages compared to men

Answer 5

40% less

Question 6

Percentage of divorces in Moscow in 1934

Answer 6

37%

Question 7

Number of abortions for every 57,000 live births

Answer 7

150,000

Question 8

Name of the Soviet Youth Organisation

Answer 8

Komsomol

Question 9

Percentage of eligible youth that had joined Komsomol in 1928

Answer 9

6%

Question 10

Name of the Youth newspaper

Answer 10

Komsomolskaia Pravada

Question 11

Percentage of time students spent on Russain

Answer 11

30%

Question 12

Percentage of time students spent on Maths

Answer 12

20%

Question 13

Percentage of time students spent on Science

Answer 13

15%

Question 14

Percentage of time students spent on Soviet History

Answer 14

10%

Question 15

Percentage of people in the towns that were literate in 1941

Answer 15

94%

Question 16

Percentage of people in the countryside that were literate in 1941

Answer 16

86%

Question 17

Name of the anti-Orthodox newspaper

Answer 17

The Godless

Question 18

Name of the organisation that all writers had to belong to

Answer 18

Union of Soviet Writers

Question 19

Type of art that was prevelant in this period

Answer 19

Social Realism

Question 20

Name of the man who denounced his father as a Kulak

Answer 20

Pavlik Porozov