Social impact of 5YPs(not included)

Question 1

How many women were in labour?

Answer 1

10 million

Question 2

What did well educated women do?

Answer 2

Doctors, lawyers or teacher

Question 3

What did non - well educated women do?

Answer 3

Labourers and factory workers

Question 4

What was a difficulty for women in work?

Answer 4

They were usually less paid and literate and less politically involved

Question 5

What percentage of workers were women?

Answer 5

44%

Question 6

What percentage of doctors were women?

Answer 6

50 - 60%

Question 7

How many factory directors were women?

Answer 7

20 out of 328

Question 8

What happened to real wages in the first and successive 5YPs?

Answer 8

They fell by 1/2 in the first 5YP and only increased to 56% of their 1928 level by 1940

Question 9

What was the diet of the average Moscow worker?

Answer 9

No fat
Very little fruit and milk
1/5 of milk and fish eaten in 1900
1/2 of the bread consumption from 1900

Question 10

What percentage of the Moscow workforce was skilled?

Answer 10

17%

Question 11

How did the government try to increase the levels of skilled labourers and its effect?

Answer 11

Implementing training schemes, which decreased the number of those that weren’t skilled.
They also increased skilled workers wages to encourage others to become skilled workers

Question 12

What happened to workers discipline?

Answer 12

It increased as absenteeism was increasing as some were not convinced with the party’s ideas. Those who weren’t cooperative were threatened with become slaves for the prestige projects such as the White Sea Canal

Question 13

How did the living space per head change between 1928 - 37?

Answer 13

It went from 5.6 - 3.8m3

Question 14

By how much did the Leningrad population increase from 1926 - 39?

Answer 14

1.6 - 3.9 million

Question 15

What was the issue with the new cities that were emerging?

Answer 15

They didn’t have the range of facilities as in other more traditional towns and cities. Resources for housing and entertaining were almost non existent.
Workers had to sleep in tents, makeshift huts or even in the factories

Question 16

What was the issue with the state owning the houses?

Answer 16

It meant that people were less likely to try to fix it, and they usually couldn’t afford the paint, tools or materials needed to fix the house. Overcrowding was a common issue

Question 17

What was the governments first priority with buildings?

Answer 17

Building places to work or factories, then the accommodation, in case they diverted from the important resources used in making the factories

Question 18

What happened to clothes at the time?

Answer 18

Most of the clothes were identical and very poor quality, being drab and identical to the rest of the populace, with shoes and boots being almost impossible to buy.