Social Security - Stalin's Successes and Failures

Question 1

1: SUCCESSES
1. What did rapid industrialisation lead to?
2. What did the 1936 constitution guarantee?

3. Five-Year Plans did lead to improved benefits.
   - By ____, most had access to _________.
   - ___,____km of rail built during 1930s, along with _____ _____. Passenger traffic increased by ___%.
4. From 1940-50, what did infant mortality decrease by?
   - Between 19__ and 19__, number of medical doctors increased by __%.
   - What else was made universally available?
5. Which law gave pensions to female workers from age 60 and male workers from age 65?

Answer 1

1. Full employment.
2. Pensions, medical & disability insurance and universal healthcare.
3. 1933, electricity.
   - 300,000km, Moscow Metro. 400%.
4. 50%.
   - 1947 and 53, 66%.
   - Vaccines.
5. 1956 Pensions Law.

Question 2

2,3&4: FAILURES

1. Who did the 1956 Pensions Law not cover?
2. Not everyone could access benefits. Some people were prioritised, such as the ____ ____ policy over vaccines.
3. What could Stalin not provide due to cost of WW2?
   - What else was not prioritised?

Answer 2

1. Peasants.
2. Party First Policy.
3. The pensions he had guaranteed.
   - Workplace safety.

Question 3

1. What failed to produce simple items such as soap?
   - What did food shortages lead to?
   - What did poor sanitation lead to?
2. What was the 1947 first health campaign encouraging workers to do?
3. What was not guaranteed in the 1936 constitution?

Answer 3

1. Command Economy.
   - Poor diets.
   - Outbreaks of disease.
2. Use a toilet properly, wash hands (poor hygiene education).
3. Housing.

Question 4

1. What were buildings divided up into in pre-existing cities?
   - On average, these were _km squared, and meant to house a ______.
2. What % of workers lived in mud huts in Magnitogorsk?

Answer 4

1. Kommunalka.
   - 4km squared, family.
2. 20%.