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How did the Communists try to change Russia? |
- Equality, family and the role of women - Religion - Education - Ideas - The Arts
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How did the Communists change Equality, family and the role of women? |
- sex should be as natural as drinking water (free love!) - free women from drudgery of married life by providing crèches and kindergartens - Marriage and divorce made easy - Abortion was available on demand NOTE many did not agree with these changes but women gained more equality in the workplace |
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How did the Communists change Religion? |
- saw it as a trick to make people accept horrible conditions on earth in hope of a better afterlife - forbidden to preach to children under 15 - some churches taken over and priests exiled
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How did the Communists change Education? |
- building schools and making sure children got adequate food - Young Communist League to encourage growth of communist ideas - Literacy Program |
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How did the Communist change ideas? |
- explained their new ideas through propaganda and agitation (on ‘agitprop’ trains) - to encourage Russians to see what they were working for in the future - posters, pamphlets, theatre groups - many people say their first films on the ‘agitrop’ train
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How and when did Lenin die? |
- Died January 1924, aged 53 - brain had shrunk to half normal size. He had suffered several strokes since 1922 having been overwhelmed by the long hours he had worked after the Revolution. |
