Social Security - Lenin's Successes and Failures

Question 1

1&2: SUCCESSES

1. Which 1918 law introduced labour duty and abolished private property?
2. What did W.C introduce?
   - What did this end?
3. What did W.C give workers in Moscow and Petrograd access to?

Answer 1

1. 1918 Labour Law.
2. Compulsory Labour.
   - Widespread unemployment.
3. Other benefits e.g. free public transport, communal laundry and dining halls.

Question 2

1. What % of people did living in Moscow (1920) did the govt claim were regularly fed in communal dining?
2. What did the 1922 Labour Law give unions the right to negotiate?
   - As a result, __ workers ended up being covered by ______ _________.
3. What % more were workers paid in 1926, compared to before WW1?

Answer 2

1. 93%.
2. Binding agreements about pay and working conditions.
   - 9m, social insurance.
3. 10%.

Question 3

3&4: FAILURES

1. In 1920, what was happening to factories?
2. W.C never provided more than __% of the ____ and ____ that people needed. Therefore people turned to the _____ _______.
3. What did the population of Petrograd fall by between 1917 and 21? (%)
   - Why?

Answer 3

1. Forced to close due to fuel shortages.
2. 50% of the food and fuel.
   Black Market.
3. 50%.
   - Workers fled cities to find work and food.

Question 4

1. What surged in 1921 and 22 after the C.W. and W.C ended?
2. Workers were sacked under NEP. In 19__, __% of the labour force were unemployed.
3. What did peasants not receive?

Answer 4

1. Unemployment.
2. 1924, 18%.
3. Any of the social insurance benefits found in cities.