Social And Cultural Change

Question 1

What did Krushchev focus on and how

Answer 1

Quality of life through the new party programmed (1961)

Question 2

What did the new party programmed claim

Answer 2

USSR was on the way to communism
Party of the people
Communist society by 1980
1970 no housing shortage
Overtake US in production
Income will increase 250%

Question 3

Why was the new party programmed criticised as utopian

Answer 3

“Achievement of communism in USSR will be the greatest victory of man kind”

Question 4

What social changed improved quality of life

Answer 4

1956 minimum wage increase
Expansion of pensions
1960 7 hour days
Harsh labour laws repealed
1964 financial aid for collective farms

Question 5

What happens to housing

Answer 5

108million into new apartments
Construction doubled
Radios/Tvs
Poor quality but still liberating

Question 6

What happened to Education

Answer 6

Numb in higher education X3
School leaving age 15
School fees abolished
- 2 year work experience to enter uni

Question 7

What did Krushchev do to religion

Answer 7

Wanted to appease presidium so
1. Strengthened anti religious propaganda
2. Tax on religion
3. Mosques under attack

Question 8

What was society like by 1965

Answer 8

Fridges, TVs, washing machines
Meat consumption rose 55% (shows ppl had more money)
Wage difference between towns/ countryside reduced

Question 9

What happened to literature

Answer 9

Banned writers rehabilitated. EG Anna Akhamatova
Censorship tested
“Literature must stay at the service of the party”
“Life and fate” banned until Gorbachev
Dr zhivago not published but one day in the life was as it promoted party

Question 10

Pravda

Answer 10

1962 published poem attacking Stalin
“The heirs of Stalin”

Question 11

Modern art

Answer 11

Hated by krushchev as “aimless”