Social conditions: changes in structure Flashcards

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What percentage of the population still dependent on agriculture? TSARS

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-80%
-underdeveloped and backwards economy.

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What was becoming blurred? TSARS

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-the distinction between traditional peasant and industrial worker
-large amount of peasants relocating to industry

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What developed amongst the peasants? TSARS

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-an aristocracy of labour
-individuals who had special skills higher up- offered skills as team.

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General structure of government from 1855-1917? TSARS

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-The Tsar and nobility (2%)
-Clergy and Middle class
-lower class

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How many middle class people were there? TSARS

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-2 million
-increasing threat to the monopoly of power.

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Why was the nobility in general decline? TSARS

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  • extravagant spending- living beyond means and mortgaging off property to fix debt.
    -sold land to peasants when repayments difficult.
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What was the statistic in a fall in nobility land ownership?

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200M to 140M (90% of this figure to peasants).

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What was the social structure supposed to be like under the communists?

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class-less society

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What was the social structure really like under the communists?

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-small elite governing the people
-among workers class indicaters (exoerts would be given privileges)

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What number of workers had been given privileges by 1930s (managerial positions?

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-1.5M workers.

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Sum up sentence for social conditions?

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-continuity- very little change.

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