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Social Developments in Russia after WWII
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Social Developments in Russia after WWII, under Stalin and Khrushchev and cultural changes
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Social DevelopmentsDate @March 19, 2023
Topic Society
Leader Khrushchev Stalin
Type Homework
Social Change under Stalin
- Peasants squeezed by quota system and live in income 20% less than industrial
workers
- Towns diets were poot and housing, services and consumer goods in short supply
- Working week remained at wartime levels norm of 12h per day
- Women expected to make up for war dead
Social Change under Khrushchev
- Commited to improve life
- Ambitious new housing alternatives
- Hours of work reduced and taxation reduced
- Better and more available education, continued improvement in medicine
- Tech improvements
The Quality of life and Cultural Change
1. Under Stalin
- Grim Zhdanovshchina with tight censorship
- Suffering ethnic minorities
- Non-existent freedom of expression
2. Under Khrushchev
- Thaw - more freedom
- Restrictions on reading of foreing literature, radio and what written or said
were lifted
- TV showed international performances
- Greater contact with Western culture, e.g. World festival in 1957 Moscow
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