Social conditions: changes in structure

Question 1

What percentage of the population still dependent on agriculture? TSARS

Answer 1

-80%
-underdeveloped and backwards economy.

Question 2

What was becoming blurred? TSARS

Answer 2

-the distinction between traditional peasant and industrial worker
-large amount of peasants relocating to industry

Question 3

What developed amongst the peasants? TSARS

Answer 3

-an aristocracy of labour
-individuals who had special skills higher up- offered skills as team.

Question 4

General structure of government from 1855-1917? TSARS

Answer 4

-The Tsar and nobility (2%)
-Clergy and Middle class
-lower class

Question 5

How many middle class people were there? TSARS

Answer 5

-2 million
-increasing threat to the monopoly of power.

Question 6

Why was the nobility in general decline? TSARS

Answer 6

• extravagant spending- living beyond means and mortgaging off property to fix debt.
  -sold land to peasants when repayments difficult.

Question 7

What was the statistic in a fall in nobility land ownership?

Answer 7

200M to 140M (90% of this figure to peasants).

Question 8

What was the social structure supposed to be like under the communists?

Answer 8

class-less society

Question 9

What was the social structure really like under the communists?

Answer 9

-small elite governing the people
-among workers class indicaters (exoerts would be given privileges)

Question 10

What number of workers had been given privileges by 1930s (managerial positions?

Answer 10

-1.5M workers.

Question 11

Sum up sentence for social conditions?

Answer 11

-continuity- very little change.