Socioeconomic

Question 1

Lenin

Answer 1

~ grain requisition led to starvation 
~ Land Decree
~ Scissors Crisis (1923)
~ hierarchical structures in industry and harsh discipline (death penalty for strikes)
~ Communist Saturdays 
~ Nepmen

Question 2

Stalin

Answer 2

~ 15 million kulaks killed
~ 6 million in Holodomor
~ during war taxes on private plots raised
~ collectives unpopular with peasants
~ practice facilities at new industry centres
~ gulag slave labour (White Sea Canal employee 180k, 10k die; 18m passed trough the system 1929-53)
~ FYP shortage of consumer goods and collectivisation killed cottage industry
~harsh discipline for wartime recovery and 2m gulag slaves

Question 3

Real wages reach 1928 levels

Answer 3

1958

Question 4

Khrushchev

Answer 4

~ Agrogorada made peasants feel separated from the land they worked
~ concessions on private land (eggs)
~harsh labour laws in industry removed

Question 5

Income of farmers doubled

Answer 5

1952-1958

Still far behind indst workers

Question 6

Brezhnev

Answer 6

~ state shop shortages forced to go to markets where prices 2x
~ living standards w/ production of consumer goods (washing machines)

Question 7

79% of families have washing machines

Answer 7

1980

Question 8

1950s growth rate

Answer 8

7%

Question 9

1960s growth rate

Answer 9

5%

Question 10

1980s growth rate

Answer 10

3%

Question 11

Stalinist legacy

Answer 11

~ geared towards heavy industry

~ no focus on efficiency or quality

Question 12

Command economy

Answer 12

Centralisation led to an unresponsive system and shortages (bras)

Question 13

Social contract

Answer 13

No incentive for productivity as employment guaranteed