Social Security - Khrushchev's Successes and Failures

Question 1

1. What happened to the healthcare budget between 1950 and 59?
2. Infant mortality dropped from __/1000 in 19__ to __/1000 in 19__.
3. What happened to the pension budget between 1950 and 65?

Answer 1

1. More than doubled.
2. 80/1000 in 1950, to 30/1000 in 1959.
3. Quadrupled.

Question 2

1. Give an example of a reform in 1961 that significantly improved social benefits.
2. What cheap, mass housing did he introduce?
3. However, this was meant to be ________, but became the ____ through the 70s and 80s.

Answer 2

1. Free public transport, full pensions, healthcare for rural workers.
2. Khrushchyovka.
3. Temporary, norm.