Social conditions: changes in structure Flashcards
What percentage of the population still dependent on agriculture? TSARS
-80%
-underdeveloped and backwards economy.
What was becoming blurred? TSARS
-the distinction between traditional peasant and industrial worker
-large amount of peasants relocating to industry
What developed amongst the peasants? TSARS
-an aristocracy of labour
-individuals who had special skills higher up- offered skills as team.
General structure of government from 1855-1917? TSARS
-The Tsar and nobility (2%)
-Clergy and Middle class
-lower class
How many middle class people were there? TSARS
-2 million
-increasing threat to the monopoly of power.
Why was the nobility in general decline? TSARS
- extravagant spending- living beyond means and mortgaging off property to fix debt.
-sold land to peasants when repayments difficult.
What was the statistic in a fall in nobility land ownership?
200M to 140M (90% of this figure to peasants).
What was the social structure supposed to be like under the communists?
class-less society
What was the social structure really like under the communists?
-small elite governing the people
-among workers class indicaters (exoerts would be given privileges)
What number of workers had been given privileges by 1930s (managerial positions?
-1.5M workers.
Sum up sentence for social conditions?
-continuity- very little change.
