34 - Social And Cultural Developments, 1945-64 Flashcards
What standards were there very little improvement of in social life under Stalin?
Living standards
What 2 areas remained few, poor and in short supply during social life under Stalin?
Consumer goods
Housing
How many working hours per day remained the norm within social life under Stalin?
12 hours a day
How much smaller was the pay of a Kolkhoz worker compared to a factory worker?
1/6 smaller
What was Stalin determined to make Soviet culture superior to? What did this anti-Westernism shape in Russia’s art?
Liberal Western culture
Policy
What values were workers and artists attacked for showing?
“Bourgoisie”, non-Soviet values
What ideology was Khrushchev a “true believer” in? What was he determined to show?
Communism
It could achieve a better life for people
What 2 areas did Khrushchev give priority to? Why did he especially do this?
Consumer goods
Housing
To show the Soviet Union compared with the West
What 2 consumer goods began appearing in Russian homes?
Fridges
TVs
Why were wage differences reduced? What wage was increased?
To ease the gulf between managers and workers
Minimum wage
What 3 groups did pensions expand to?
Elderly
Sick
Disabled
For what 2 reasons was pension expansion important?
Many were permanently injured from war
There were many one-parent families
What construction increased? How many people moved into homes from 1956-65?
Housing construction
108 million
What was an issue with the quality of housing construction? Why did this still change lives?
They were poorly made
People no longer shared accommodation
What 3 groups and facilities increased in society?
Doctors
Hospitals
Students in higher education
