soviet society

Question 1

what happened to middle and upper class

Answer 1

1917 began to attack aristocrats encouraged hostility to bourgeois
it kept the peasantry and WC class happy and distracted
lenin formalises the prosecution of burzhui - class enemy
calling them former people

Question 2

what happened to burzhui houses

Answer 2

requisitioned into houses for the workers
assaulted, robbed and killed
increased during the civil war

Question 3

burzhui women

Answer 3

turned to prostitution

Question 4

NEp and collectivisation and the burzhui

Answer 4

communist propaganda continued to denounce the burzhui
but they were merely tolerated during this time

Question 5

the great turn

Answer 5

anyone who benefitted from NEP , nepmen and kulaks were denounced and portrayed as greedy

Question 6

working class and the decree on workers

Answer 6

control production and supervise management

Question 7

why did the decree on workers not work

Answer 7

gave themselves pay raises and extra holidays

Question 8

how was discipline restored

Answer 8

through the civil war repression, through managers and labour regulations
passports to regulate movement
and trade unions were now under state control. Authoritarian?

Question 9

Did workers lives improve under Lenin NEP

Answer 9

no, laid off workers wages remained low and heavy industry were under state control
No unions to represent the workers
NEP labelled as the new exploitation of workers

Question 10

’ new soviet man’ under STalin

Answer 10

had a responsability to benifit the community

Question 11

Stakhanovite movement

Answer 11

Heroes of Soviet
mass cultural movement of workers and encouraged socialist emulation, to break production records

Question 12

Wage differentials

Answer 12

Bonuses and extra rewards to inspire workers
wage differentials betwee n highest and lowest wages bigger than america

Question 13

Why were stakhanovites resented

Answer 13

increased labour norms by 1963 10 percent increase in labour productions

Question 14

Working conditions under stalin

Answer 14

Cramped poor sanitation
water supply

Question 15

What happened to LC during second year plan

Answer 15

increases as consumer goods

Question 16

What happened to LC during third year plan

Answer 16

decreased because of war prep

Question 17

did a Heirachy form

Answer 17

a heirachy formed there were elites in the communist party

Question 18

Women under Lenin

Answer 18

could divorce and abortions
legally seen as equal
set up nurseries so women could work
Women branch of central committee to promote position of women in society

Question 19

• for women under lenin

Answer 19

Rapes
Nuseries not that much set up in reality
had to balance both home and work life
extreme burden

Question 20

Impact on women; stalin bad things

Answer 20

The central commitee for women was shut down with Stalin claiming that women’s issues had been solved
women earned 40 percent less

Question 21

Impact on women; the good things

Answer 21

Expansion of higher education in 1929 the government reserved 20 percent higher education places for women
40 percent of engineering students were women
health care and education
more nursries in the 1930’s

Question 22

What happened
to women in 1934

Answer 22

had become concerned with divorce and falling birth rate
men seeking divorce had to contribute 60 percent of income
abortion was outlawed except if it was at risk to a women’s life

Question 23

Mother heroines

Answer 23

10 or more children

Question 24

male homosexuality

Answer 24

illegal

Question 25

traditional women reasserted

Answer 25

images of strong muscular women during the five year plans and collectivisation now depicted women and importance of being a mother bearing children

Question 26

Impact on youth lenin

Question 27

Command economy successes during the war

Answer 27

1.5 million railway wagons of industrial plant and machinery will move to western regions

3500 new factories were created and thousands by existing manufacturing plans were converted to war production

Question 28

economic impact during the war : Agriculture

Answer 28

The countryside was stripped of men, horses and machinery by the end of the war
80% of collective farm workers were women

Ruthlessly procuring of grain

only soldiers and essential manual labourers were guaranteed a supply of good food

during the war the peasants had been allowed to keep the small private plots of land which when expanded and sell their produce at market but it’s not sufficient to provide a full diet

Question 29

Lend lease

Answer 29

Even before the end of the war the USA was supplying Britain and USSR with essential supplies to enable them to keep up with the struggle against Nazi Germany this game is called land lease as in theory the supplies will be returned or paid off after the war finished

Lend lease made up 10% of Soviet GDP

Question 30

The cost of the war

Answer 30

The western regions of the USSR suffered the greatest devastation as the retreated in 1941 the red Army destroyed as much as possible in the scorched earth policy to deprive the Germans are valuable resources

Question 31

How much towns in the USSR lose during the war

Answer 31

17000 town
40% of agricultural output

Question 32

Social effects of the war

Answer 32

for the war as an opportunity to expand Soviet power and strength and its control of a national minorities

due to the Nazi Soviet pact of 1939 the USSR had taken over the eastern half of Poland

April 1940 20,000 Polish army officers and members of the Polish elite was shot

Question 33

Repression of national minorities during the war

Answer 33

600,000 Volga Germans departed to eastern Siberia even though there was no reason to suspect the loyalty to the USSR as many had sons and brothers fighting in the red Army

mass arrests and executions in Ukraine

Stalin was angry at reports that some Ukrainians had welcomed the Germans advance and occupation of 1941 the scale of results however far exceeded the actual numbers involved

2 million people from the Caucasus region including Crimean tartars when deported to Kazakhstan and Siberia Stalin had never trusted the loyalty of these nationalities to the USSR