Stalinist society

Question 1

What impact did the economic programme have

Answer 1

Huge social changes

Question 2

How did economic plans effect the countryside

Answer 2

The Party had greater control over the countryside as a result of collectivisation.

Party officials supervised the peasants
The NKVD watched the peasants within the MTS

Question 3

Where did the population increase

Answer 3

In the towns
creating a stronger working class
- the backbone of the Communist state

Question 4

“Mass culture”

Answer 4

The Stat claimed that the fulfilment of socialist values were well underway through education, propaganda, the leadership cult, public celebrations, arts, culture and the show trials.

Evidence to show that the people never fully supported the regime as little had improved.
- peasants preferred to cultivate their private plots

Question 5

Lenin

Answer 5

Civil war had excused poor living coniditons

Question 6

Stalin

Answer 6

Low rations
Poor Housing
Lack of consumer goods
could not be excused

Question 7

Control of the people

Answer 7

Internal passports reissued in 1932
Strict censorship
Mass propaganda
Mass organisations (especially the youth)
control over churches

Question 8

Type of society in the 1930s

Answer 8

Not the socialist society promised but a hierarchical society dominated by a privileged elite organised around the Party and the nomenklatura