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What did Lenin legalise?

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  • abortion
  • homosexual and trangender activity (still socially persecuted but not legally)
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What did the internal passport system introduced in the 1930s restrict?

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the free movement of labour

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What caused thousands of LGBT people to be sent to the gulags?

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Stalin recriminalised homosexual activity, which remained illegal until 1993

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Stalin’s view on family and marriage?

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  • restricted divorce
  • banned abortion
  • discouraged sexual freedom, propaganda promoted abstinence from sex outside marriage
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Khrushchev’s 3 main legal reforms?

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  • encouraged ‘comrade courts’ a.k.a local courts
  • law on parasitism punished those out of work for 5 years
  • re-introduced the death penalty for serious economic crimes
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What was rationed by Prodraspred during War communism?

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food and fuel

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How much did the Urban popoulation fall by during the civil war and why?

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25%
Workers didn’t get enough rations so went to search for food in the countryside

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What percentage of the urban workforce were unemployed by 1924 due to the introduction of the NEP?

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18%

  • soldiers had been demobilised, free creches were shut down meaning women found it harder to work, and workers were sacked to make industry more efficient
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What were 9 million urban workers entitled to under the benefit system in the 1920s, administered by trade unions?

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social insurance - disability benefits, maternity benefits, unemployment benefits and medical benefits

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Who reintroduced compulsory work?

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Stalin

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From what year were vaccines for common diseases made available?

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1947

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Who weren’t entitled to rations under Stalin?

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Peasants - rations were reserved for urban workers but still often were made with rotten food etc.

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What caused issues in both factories and farms for workers?

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Poor sanitation occasionally led to outbreaks of dysentery and vomiting

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Successful housing experiment under Stalin?

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Narkomfin Apartment House in Moscow, however it was expensive and therefore rare

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Where did factory workers live in the new factory towns such as Magnitogorsk?

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Barracks

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Example of a housing problem for urban labourers under Stalin?

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dormitories at the Moscow Coal Fields were short nearly 10,000 beds for the workers

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Increase in healthcare spending under Khrushchev?

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Doubled spending on healthcare between 1950-1959

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How much did Khrushchev increase the pensions budget by 1950-1965?

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Quadrupled the pensions budget

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What social welfare did Khrushchev introduce?

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  • free lunches for schools, offices, factories
  • free public transport
  • free pensions and healthcare for farmers
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Effect of Khrushchev’s increased spending on welfare?

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death rate fell from 9.7 to 7.3 (1950-65)
infant mortality fell from 81 to 27 per 1000

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How did housing improve under Khrushchev?

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Khrushchyovka allowed families to have their own space with running water and central heating, compared to the Kommunalka under Stalin where families often had to live in 1 room

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Sign of the success of Khrushchyovka?

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continued to be standard design through till the 80s despite initially being intended to be a temporary measure

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How many Khrushchyovka blocks were built?

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nearly 13,000

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How many people acquired housing through a Khrushchyovka?

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nearly 55 million

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How long did it take to build a K-7 block?

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average 12 days

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How were Khrushyovka built?

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with prefabricated concrete panels and standardised windows and doors

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What was guaranteed to citizens under Brezhnev’s ‘social contract’?

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  • job security
  • low price of essentials
  • 2nd economy without gov. interference
  • social benefits
  • social mobility opportunities
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What did Brezhnev include social welfare provision to include?

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subsidized rent, electric and water facilities (close to free) , subsidised holidays and an increase in spending on pensions and healthcare each year

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29
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What did life expectancy for men drop by in the 1970s?

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from 68 to 64

the likely cause was alcoholism - since healthcare provision was increasing

30
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Did Brezhnev’s ‘social contract’ increase stability?

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YES

31
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What was Zhenotdel?

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the women’s department of the Communist Party, developed soon after the revolution, which promoted women fulfilling their ‘natural, nurturing role’

32
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What percentage of urban men were estimated to use prostitutes in the 1920’s?

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39%

33
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Why were women increasingly out of work during the NEP?

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  • creches were closed
  • women were sacked instead of men to make room for men
34
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How many women joined the labour force by 1940?

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nearly 10 million (300% increase)

35
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Average wage gap for women during the five year plans?

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they made around 60-65% of a man’s wages

36
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Issue for working women?

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Physical and verbal abuse in factories
Unable to get promotions
- generally restricted to low-skilled work such as textile production

37
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What percentage of industrial jobs did women get in the 1960s?

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45%

38
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Which fields did women dominate by 1985?

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  • 70% of medical doctors
  • 75% university employees
  • 65% of those in arts and cultures

the pay in these fields was ‘feminised’ however

39
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What type of work opened up to women in the 1960s?

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clerical and administrative work especially in healthcare and education

40
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What was the ‘triple shift’ for women in agriculture?

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household chores, farm labour and often supplementary income through handicrafts

41
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How many women were recruited for the Virgin Lands Scheme in August 1958 and how many actually found well-paid professional jobs?

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64,000 recruited
less than 450 of these succeeded

42
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What percentage of the lowest-paid farmers were women by 1970?

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72%

43
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By 1980 how do the statistics of teachers in rural schools compare with that of farm managers?

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women were 80% of teachers but only 2% of farm managers

44
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What experiments of Lenin’s government regarding the family as a social unit were abandoned by the 1920s?

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experiments with communal living and free love

45
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What reforms were suggested by Zhenotdel and instituted by Lenin? (5)

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  • abortion on demand
  • contraception
  • accessible divorce
  • legalisation of prostitution
  • legalisation of male homosexuality
46
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What did Trotsky label as the ‘great retreat’?

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Stalin’s family policy which was much more conservative

47
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Stalin’s changes to family policy, with the goal of creating stable families which would benefit economic development? (6)

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  • abortion criminalised (unless danger to life)
  • banned contraception
  • criminalised male homosexuality and lesbians subject to hypnotherapy
  • extra or pre-marital sex stigmatised in propaganda
  • divorce more expensive and harder to get
  • father’s had to pay 1/3 income to child support after divorce
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Khrushchev’s policies aimed to help liberate women?

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  • legalised abortion 1955
  • increased paid maternity leave by around 50 days to 112 days 1956
  • expanded creche, child-care facilities and communal laundries
  • introduced convenience food and mass-produced clothing to end the ‘double shift’
  • aimed to make fridges more widely available to prevent daily shopping trips
49
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Despite Khrushchev’s policies to help women, what issues continued?

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  • contraception hard to get
  • creches opened late and closed early so full work days still impossible for mothers
  • domestic appliances were either less helpful than anticipated or not widely available
50
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When was a new law liberalising divorce introduced under Brezhnev?

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1965

51
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What fraction of soviet marriages ended in divorce by 1979?

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1/3

52
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Propaganda campaigns against working mothers under Brezhnev?

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  • suggested they were responsible for juvenile delinquency, rising crime, drug use, alcoholism and broken families
53
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Who introduced literacy classes to the Red Army and what did it do?

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Trotsky
- increased literacy in the army from 50 to 100% by 1925

54
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Who introduced reading rooms which offered 6 week reading classes (under lenin)

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Lunacharsky

55
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What percentage of the Soviet population could read in 1917?

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32%

56
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What did literacy rates grow to in 1928?

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55%

57
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What groups worked with the government to establish libraries and literacy classes?

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Trade unions - e.g the transport workers union reached 99% literacy by 1927

58
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What percentage of citizens were literate by 1939?

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94%

59
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How did Stalin go about literacy campaigns?

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under the 1st five year plan ‘cultural soldiers’ were sent to fight illiteracy in the countryside. They were successful but 40% were assaulted as they were associated too strongly with the government

60
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When was the Young Pioneers group established? what was the age range?

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1922 for ages 10-15

61
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What youth group was introduced in 1918 for those aged 16-28?

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Komsomol

62
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What were Komsomol and young pioneers members expected to do in the 1930s?

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report criminal activity of parents

63
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Khrushchev’s attitude to Komsomol?

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hoped they would hold factory managers and part officials to account

64
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Brezhnev’s attitude to Komsomol?

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suspicious towards them, viewing the leadership as ambitious therefore threatening. He wanted the group to be disciplines and emphasise values of hard work and respecting the government

65
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When were primary school fees abolished?

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1927

66
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What percentage of Soviet children attended primary school by 1928?

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60%

67
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What percentage of 15-17 yr olds completed their secondary education by 1953?

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around 20%

68
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What percentage of children ages 8-12 received 4 years of primary education?

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nearly 100%

69
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Increase in university education between 1927 and 1953?

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100,000 - 1.5 million

70
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Who were favoured under the secondary and uni education systems?

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communist officials children - the communist party and trade unions offered scholarships and grants but kids of nomenklatura were favoured

71
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Khrushchev’s reforms to education? (7)

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  • merging small country schools
  • doubling number of schools in towns and cities
  • reduced class sizes
  • investment in teacher training and recruitment
  • moved curriculum towards vocational training
  • ended the right for headteachers to expel students
  • replaced exams with continuous assessment
72
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Education after Khrushchev?

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  • senior communists felt that reforms undermined the academic excellence of the soviet system
  • traditional curriculum reinstated
  • vocational training of 16-19yr olds on farms and factories ended

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