Krushchev

Question 1

Aims of government

Answer 1

destalinisation, and to Tara – May 19 56 4500 prisoners rehabilitated

Question 2

Secret speech

Answer 2

1956, criticise Stalin

Question 3

What was introduced/split

Answer 3

Fixed terms introduced – 16 years for central committee, agriculture, and industry split

Question 4

women

Answer 4

Allowed abortion, maternity pay increased, 45% of jobs in industry

Question 5

Housing

Answer 5

K7 apartments cheap, easy to build, allowed privacy

Question 6

Festival in 1957

Answer 6

World youth festival, informed of western culture

Question 7

Education:

Answer 7

Merge schools in countryside to improve standards, doubled schools in cities, fees abolished in 1956, training for teachers

Question 8

Cult

Answer 8

criticised Stalin’s cult, portrayed himself as the disciple of Lenin

Question 9

Religion

Answer 9

anti-religion campaign 1958, closed reopen churches, anti-religious propaganda introduced – space program yuri to prove no God

Question 10

Virgin lands

Answer 10

33,000,000 hectares, thousands of komsomol sent but left due to working conditions, 53 to 58 production rose 35%, more food = better living, farmers more income, claimed to outproduce US by 1960, women used to entice

Question 11

7 year plan

Answer 11

Increased consumer goods 60%, working week reduced to 41 hours, quantity over quality

Question 12

Corn campaign

Answer 12

1958 failed and led to 1963 fail of harvest – likened to krushchevs hair

Question 13

Quote

Answer 13

What kind of economy is it that can’t produce a sausage?

Question 14

Agriculture reforms

Answer 14

improved incentives – reduced quotas, raised price for surplus, pensions for peasants, 52 to 56 income Rose 250%

More investment in resources – 40% fertiliser