Social Benefits

Question 1

Urban workers entitled to social insurance

Answer 1

1920s
Unemployment, maternity, medical
Gvmnt investment in education, covered 9 m

Question 2

Under Stalin

Answer 2

Food rations for urban workers
Factory canteens
Vaccines for common diseases (malaria and typhus)
Peasants don’t benefit, no rations
Food shortages so canteens use rotten/animal food
Poor sanitation in factories caused diseases

Question 3

staye welfare spending 1950-1980

Answer 3

5x

Question 4

Brezhnev’s social contract

Answer 4

Subsidised rent
Increased spending on healthcare and pensions
Utilities eg water and electric v cheap

Question 5

There was social stability

Answer 5

Highest standard of living xp in ussr

Better housing, healthcare, pensions, literacy, education, organised opposition rare

Question 6

There wasn’t social stability

Answer 6

1962 protests over gvmnt inc food prices of meat and dairy, turned violent in Novocherkassk, 70 ded
Unrest over poor housing in Kyiv 1969
Hooliganism 
20m alccies by 1987
Divorce and abuse, 1/3+ end in divorce