WOMEN AND ETHNIC MINORITIES

Question 1

REFORMS THATAFFECTED WOMEN

Answer 1

• divorce made simple
• abortion and contraception easy to obtain
• women had equal pay for equal work
• equal educational opportunities

Question 2

CHANGES FOR WOMEN UNDER STALINISM

Answer 2

• birth rates were falling
• did not like impacts that came easy with divorce.
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• party was dominated by men

Question 3

CHANGES OF POSITION FOR WOMEN AFTER 1936

Answer 3

• abortions banned in 1936, sterilisations were banned and state made difficult to get contraception
• incentives for women to have children, >6 received 2000 roubles a year, for 5 years
• higher fees charged for divorce, child support was raised
• Zhendotel was the women’s section of communist party, he was ABOLISHED

Question 4

EMPLOTMENT/POLITICAL

Answer 4

• women’s rights under increasing attack when Zhendotel was abolished
• women made up 40% if all industrial workers in 37.
  few women in managerial positions and women tended to earn less

Question 5

REASONS FOR PERSECUTION OF ETHNIC MINORITIES

Answer 5

• people criticised for putting ethnic identities first, Soviet Nationalism was encouraged.
• resistance to collectivisation was were national identities were strongest
• Ukraine famine blamed on UKRANIANS
• Stalin believed some nationalities were enemies of the people, threat to USSR

Question 6

FEATURES

Answer 6

• target for purges
• quotas for specific minorities