Urban Housing Flashcards
Alexander III [1881-93]
Urban Housing
Very Little Sanitation
Nicholas II [1893-1917]
Urban Housing
1897
Rapid Urbanisation = workers.Baracks over populated
1900
15% of Russian pop in Urban areas (russia is still mostly peasnts)
compared to 80% in Britain
1910
St Petersburg 100,000 die of cholorea
survey= 93% of 12000 st petersburg workers are alcoholicsbby 17th Birthday due to the poor conditions
1911
St Petersburg Sewer system built
1914
pop of St Petersburg + Moscow X2
200 towns have piped water
38 have sewage system
74 towns have electricity access
35 towns have access to Gas
Houses mainly made of Wood = Flamable (not safe)
Lenin [1917-24]
Urban Housing
Decree on Peace
party looks at Housing
the Soviets Gave City private homes to the proletariate
Stalin [1929-53]
Urban Housing
1935
new space for housing
creates New Tenements (Flats)
25 million homless in WW2
25% of Moscow was living in shared rooms at 2 or more households
(Shows Over crowded)
25% of Moscow lived in commercial Dormitorys
Khrushchev [1953-64]
Urban Housing
1955-64
Housing Stock = X2
the new houses and Tenements had such good conditions, people would rather stay at home than go to political meetings!
Urban Housing Links and Diffs
The tennement blocks by Stalin and Khrushchev
Far difference to the rows of cheaply built houses that came before them
And between the two they were so different inequality that Khrushchev’s Tennement blocks became known as khrushchyovka
These kind of flats were so good compared to what had come before it and gave a reasonable standard of life to the workers that people didn’t want to go to political meetings because they were just so comfortable
furthermore under him there was a large extent of consumer goods such as fridges making the quality of life far better than anything else in the period
