RUSSIA: T4 Social Developments Flashcards
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Triple shift
When a women has 3 duties - a day job (industry/agriculture), household handicrafts/ agriculture, and domestic chores
When a women has 3 duties - a day job (industry/agriculture), household handicrafts/ agriculture, and domestic chores
Triple shift
liquidation of illiteracy
Lenin’s drive against illiteracy, aims to make all soviet citizens 8-50 literate
Lenin’s drive against illiteracy, aims to make all soviet citizens 8-50 literate
liquidation of illiteracy
war against illiteracy
Stalin’s continuation of Lenin’s “liquidation…”, by 1939 94% of adults are literate
Stalin’s continuation of Lenin’s “liquidation…”, by 1939 94% of adults are literate
war against illiteracy
K-7
Khrushchev’s cheap, low-quality apartments built to temporarily house citizens until 1980 communist utopia
Khrushchev’s cheap, low-quality apartments built to temporarily house citizens until 1980 communist utopia
K-7 apartments
Kommunalka
Stalin’s repurposed homes for multiple families, cramped with terrible facilities
Stalin’s repurposed homes for multiple families, cramped with terrible facilities
Kommunalka
How many women worked in industry in 1928 and 1940?
3m in 1928, 13m in 1940
How many Soviet women served in the Great Patriotic War?
800,000
What % of peasant households were Kulaks during the 1920s?
4%
What % of Russians were literate in 1917?
Around 35%
What % of Soviet citizens were literate in 1939?
Over 94%
What % of 8-12 year olds were in school at the end of Stalin’s leadership?
Near 100%
What were the number of uni students in 1953 and 1985?
1953, 1.5m 1985, 5m
What was life expectancy in 1917?
34 years
By what factor did the urban population increase 1929-40?
x3
What fraction of urban housing is destroyed in the GPW?
1/3
By what factor did the number of hospital beds increase 1929-40?
x3
What happened to the amount of urban housing 1950-65?
Doubled (x2)
How much space on avg did a kommunalka resident have in 1940?
4 square meters
