Social 1917-41 Flashcards
(46 cards)
What groups began to be attacked in 1917
Aristocrats
Landowners
Priests
Businessmen
Lawyers
Doctors
What restarted the attack on bourgeois groups
The Great Turn
What did the workers decree on Workers Control give
Gave workers the right to control production and finance and to supervise management
Why did the decree on Workers Control fail
Gave themselves pay rises and longer holidays
What were introduced to stop workers leaving the cities
Internal passports
How was discipline restored in factories during the civil war
Managers and harsh labour regulations
What was the nickname given to the NEP by the workers
The new exploitation of the proletariat
What image was punished via propaganda
New socialist man
How were more working class kids able to get into university
Quota system to ensure that a certain percentage were from working class backgrounds
Which workers were used for propaganda
The Stakhanovite Movement
What was hierarchy dependent on
Membership of the communist party
What did membership of the communist party get you
Better housing and higher rations
What percentage of the population were members of the party in the 1930s
Just under 10%
Who did the NEP benefit more
Benefited the peasantry more then the workers
What caused peasants resentment
High taxation
What measures where introduced for women under Lenin
Could own property
Sex discrimination became illegal
Divorce was made easier
Abortion legalised and made available on demand
What was the issue for women surrounding working
Dual burden
Why was easier access to divorce bad
70% initiated by men
In Moscow 1927 how many marriages ended in divorce
2/3
Stalin- On average how much less did women earn then men
40%
In 1929 what percentage of higher education was reserved for women
20%
By 1940 what percentage of engineering students were women
Over 40%
Stalin- what percentage of their income would men seeking divorce have to provide in child support
60%
Stalin- What was outlawed
Abortion
