Women and the Family - Brezhnev's Successes and Failures

Question 1

1. What did Brezhnev claim had been achieved?
   - Was this true?
2. What did propaganda in the late 60s and 70s emphasise a ‘true Soviet’ woman should be?
3. What message did Brezhnev promote that was reaffirmed by Andropov and Chernenko?

Answer 1

1. Sexual equality.
   - NO.
2. Worker, caring wife and mother.
3. Prominent pronatal message.

Question 2

1. What was not allowed to be reported on?
2. In 1982, official figures suggested women spent twice as long doing as men doing what?
3. What % of farm managers were women in 1980?

Answer 2

1. Info on women’s rights campaigns in the West.
2. Household chores.
3. 2%.

Question 3

1. What fraction of soviet marriages ended in divorce by 1979?
2. Between 19__ and 19__, women never made up more than _% of the C.C.

Answer 3

1. 1/3.

2. 1953 and 85, 4%.