Social and economic condition of the Soviet Union by 1941

Question 1

what percent of the population lived in towns by 1939

Answer 1

33% from 17% in 1926

Question 2

how was the soviet unions steel production by 1940

Answer 2

had overtaken Britain and was not far behind Germany

Question 3

how many aircraft factories were constructed in 1939

Answer 3

9

Question 4

how much was spent on rearmament in 1941 and 1938

Answer 4

1938 27.5 billion roubles
1941 70.9 billion roubles

Question 5

state of consumer goods

Answer 5

consumer production had been cut back
consumer goods scarcer than they had been under the NEP

Question 6

what happened to quality of goods

Answer 6

declined as bureaucrats were set on figures and targets

Question 7

how had the USSR made progress towards socialism

Answer 7

that state owned factories and fields on the people behalf
no profits being made at other expense

Question 8

how had control over the people increased in the countryside

Answer 8

peasants supervised by party officials in kolkhozes
secret police station at each moto tractor station

Question 9

how had control over the people increased in towns and cities

Answer 9

managers subject to the controls of the party
workers controlled through labour books and internal passports and labour discipline

Question 10

how had a hierarchal society been created

Answer 10

peasants at the mercy of the collectives
working classes exploited by soviet masters
privileged party elite at the top