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How did the Communists try to change Russia?
- Equality, family and the role of women
- Religion
- Education
- Ideas
- The Arts
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
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
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
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
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.
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