SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT LENIN

Question 1

GENDER:
in tsarist society

Answer 1

deeply patriachle society, men in charge of family and marriages > Marx > inequality was natural(inherent) in capitalist society, women oppressed by dual burden

Question 2

GENDER: Bolsheviks wanted greater gender equality

Answer 2

wanted them to participate in full time emplyment+ gain economic independence
play active role in communist party+gov
achieve elegy status with men
liberating them from tradiotnal role as house wife

Question 3

key changes of gender:

Answer 3

nov 1917- decree agsint sex discrimination (women given right to own property and vote in soviet election)
divorce law 1917- (women easier to get divorce)
social welfare laws (maternity pay for 2 month, abortion permitted, contraception allowed)

Question 4

limitations to key changes in gender

Answer 4

easier divorces>men abaosnond pregnant women
70% divorces initiated by men 1920
1927>2/3 of marriages ended in divorce
gov couldn’t fund enough nursery
dual burden still cocured
after rcw expressive role still occurred

Question 5

continuity of gender:

Answer 5

leaders of communist party showed limited interest in lives of women
women who tried to involve themselevs>prejudice
wives of communist party members expect to stay home
Zhenotdel shut down 1930(women’s branch central committee)

Question 5

women played limited role in communist party

Answer 5

1917-10% 1928>12.8%

Question 6

ethnicity :
progress/ change

Answer 6

ussr was federation equal ethnic gorups
separate republics for Ukraine, belarus
all legal discrimination agsint jews abolished 1917
restrictions on lang/culture disappeared

Question 7

ethnicity : ethnic inequalities still existed

Answer 7

ussr rolled by sovnarkom
republics had little to say in what policies could choose
religious restrictions placed upon orthodox christians and jews still targets via pograms > esp during rcw

Question 8

ethnicity : civil war and pograms > KLUKHLIV CASE

Answer 8

klukliv taken over by red army> Ukraine fought bolsehivks > red army recaptured aims was to eliminate jews > UKRAIN claimed payed to fight boslehivks and sided with boslehviks
jewish intelelgensiq slaughters and orderd large scale shooting of jewish property

Question 9

ethnicity : jewish pograms 1918-20

Answer 9

1500 took place, 250k died, w/r/g placed. condemned by the west

Question 10

sexuality : acceptance

Answer 10

1918 abandonment of old criminal code and with it restrictions on sexuality
legislation of homosexuality
1922-26 homosexuality and its associated acts were legal, new sexual freedoms appeared

Question 11

sexuality however :

Answer 11

many leading communist still conservative with views to sexuality
free love is a distraction from min rev struggle and waste of energy
social attitudes had not changed

Question 12

class : got better

Answer 12

rev happened because of wc, their superiority reflected by having better rations, more rights compared to privileged bourgeois
relaxation of working conditions and living conditions of peasants and workers

Question 13

class: however

Answer 13

life difficult for workers> trade unions turned org that forced workers to work harder
not allowed to change jobs during civil war paid “in kind”
harder punishment for those who slacked
peasant had to hand over mroe grain than In tsarist gov >famine
some forced to collectivise their land > loosing own farms

Question 14

class: social inequalities still increased

Answer 14

nep men new class saw a new class of borgeuous private trades>capitalist class on the market
nep men became hated group
bukharin encourage peasants to enrich themselves > kualks

Question 15

age:

Answer 15

education essential for socialsim, restrictions and display, komsoma > org young people to spread communise tteaching preparing future member son communist party communsit values