Social Changes

Question 1

Lenin on illiteracy:

Answer 1

“The illiterate person stands outside of politics”

Question 2

Compulsory reading lessons in the Red Army started in:

Answer 2

April 1918

Question 3

Schools standardised:

Answer 3

May 1918

Question 4

By …, … of Russians were literate, compared with :

Answer 4

Mid- 1920’s, 51% of Russians were literate compared with the 23% in early 1900’s

Question 5

Folk saying on women oppression:

Answer 5

“A baba [peasant wife] is not a human being”

Question 6

Decree on Marriage passed:

Answer 6

December 1917

Question 7

Free abortions made legal in:

Answer 7

1918

Question 8

Woman’s Department of the Central Committee Secretariat called and formed:

Answer 8

Zhenotdel, 1919

Question 9

By …, Russia had the highest divorce rate in Europe

Answer 9

1924

Question 10

Lenin on electralisation:

Answer 10

“Electricity will take the place of god.”

Question 11

Creation of State Commission for the Electrification of Russia (GOELRO):

Answer 11

1920

Question 12

By …, there was … electricity of output

Answer 12

1921, there was 520,000,000 kilowatts of output

Question 13

By …, there was … kilowatts

Answer 13

1926, there was 3,508,000,000 kilowatts of output