Social developments in the city- People

Question 1

When was the Dnieprostroi Damn opened?

Answer 1

Oct 1932

Question 2

What was significant about Dnieprostroi Damn?

Answer 2

one of the largest power plants in the world

largest in USSR

Question 3

When was Moscow Metro opened?
How many stations does it have?
how long is the line?

Answer 3

1935
13 stations
11 km line

Question 4

What was the first underground railway system in USSR and when?

Answer 4

Moscow Metro 1935

Question 5

How many people died when working on the Moscow-Volga Canal?

Answer 5

c22,000

Question 6

How many prisoners built the Moscow-Volga Canal? From where did they come from?

Answer 6

200,000

Dmitlag labour camp

Question 7

name the giant steel plant and the town of 150 k created from nothing

Answer 7

Magnitogorsk

Question 8

Who helped build Komsomolsk?

Answer 8

Komsomol volunteer labour and prison camp labour

Question 9

Which USA car designer was advised for the car industry, training Russian engineers and design car plant at Gorky

Answer 9

Henry Ford

Question 10

How did Henry Ford help Russia?

Answer 10

advised for the car industry, training Russian engineers and design car plant at Gorky

Question 11

What happened to 6 US engineers in 1932?

Answer 11

Awarded order of the red banner of labour

Question 12

What did the Stakhanovite movement stem from?

Answer 12

Aleksei Stakhanov cut 102 tonnes of coal in 5.75 hours in Aug 1935
14x more than expected

Question 13

How many records were broken by Dec 1935?

Answer 13

2 volumes

Question 14

What could a manager receive if he exceeded the quota?

Answer 14

up to 40% of his income bonus

Question 15

Why did it become normal to falsify stats?

Answer 15

the manager could be put on trial imprisoned or executed for not meeting targets

Question 16

Why did books need to balance?

Answer 16

To prevent being charged for wrecking

Question 17

From 1936 factories had to do what?

What was the consequence?

Answer 17

From 1936 factories had to pay for their own fuel, raw material and labour from ‘profits’
Bribery and corruption were commonplace

Question 18

Workers norms were raised by what in 1936?

Answer 18

10-50%

Question 19

Describe working conditions

Answer 19

7-day working week, longer working hours, arriving late/missing work could result in eviction or no benefits

Question 20

When were wage differentials introduced?

Answer 20

1931

Question 21

Real wages under 2nd 5-Year plan _______ but were still _____ than 1928

Answer 21

Real wages under 2nd 5-Year plan increased but were still lower than 1928

Question 22

When was rationing phased out?

Answer 22

1935

Question 23

Name the Belomor Canal death rate

name the average survival time

Answer 23

700 per day

2 years

Question 24

In 1929 female workers represented how much of the workforce

Answer 24

In 1929 female workers represented c29% of the workforce

Question 25

How were women discriminated?

Answer 25

paid less than men

kept in jobs with least skill

Question 26

What department of the party was closed in Jan 1930

Answer 26

Zhenotdel
devote to women’s affairs
mangers were reluctant to train or promote women
harassed by male co-workers

Question 27

By 1935 women were how much of the overall industrial workforce?

Answer 27

42%

Question 28

from 1936 the Party made the workplace ___ for women by ____

Answer 28

Workplace easier by enrolling women into technical training programmes
BUT WOMEN STILL EARNED 40% less than men

Question 29

By 1940 how much of the workforce was women?

Answer 29

43%

Question 30

between 1928 and 1932 industrial workforce ____

Answer 30

doubled