Social - Key Facts

Question 1

Two taxes removed under Khrushchev

Answer 1

• Bachelor’s Tax
• Childless Couples Tax

Question 2

Number of hours in a work week

Answer 2

40 hours

Question 3

Priviledges were still in the form of …

Answer 3

Non-wage payments

Question 4

Famous ballet companies who toured abroad

Answer 4

• Bolshoi Ballet
• Kirov Ballet

Question 5

Name of the Moscow football team

Answer 5

Moscow Dynamos

Question 6

Name of the festival held in Moscow in 1957

Answer 6

The World Festival of Youth

Question 7

Number of people that attended The World Festival of Youth

Answer 7

34,000

Question 8

Name given to the Russian ‘Teddy’ boys

Answer 8

Stiliagi

Question 9

Percentage of the population under 30

Answer 9

55%

Question 10

Composer that was allowed to work again under Khrushchev

Answer 10

Shostakovich

Question 11

Writer that was allowed to work again under Khrushchev

Answer 11

Bebel

Question 12

Name and Author of book written about industrial beaucracy in 1956

Answer 12

Not my Bread Alone - Vladimir Dudinstev

Question 13

Name and Author of the book that had to be printed in Italy in 1957

Answer 13

Dr Zhivago - Boris Pasternak

Question 14

Name of the author that had to turn down their Nobel Prize

Answer 14

Boris Pasternak

Question 15

Name of the manditory high education course

Answer 15

Foundations of Scientific Atheism

Question 16

Number of Monestaries remaining in 1962

Answer 16

36 out of 146

Question 17

Decrease in the number of Orthodox churches by 1965

Answer 17

From 22,000 to 8,000

Question 18

Russian name for Khrushchev’s plans to fuse nationalities

Answer 18

Sblizhenie (Reapprochment)