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16 Cards in this Set
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What was housing like under Lenin? |
- Local soviets confiscated property form the wealthy and moved workers - Squalid conditions in the cities - Houses destroyed for fuel during the civil war - Some experimentation with rent free housing until 1921 |
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What percentage of houses were privatised during the NEP? |
60 to 80% |
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What happened to distribution after Lenin's death? |
Attempts to introduce redistribution |
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What percentage of house building was private during the NEP? |
90% |
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What was the amount of space per family in 1928? |
5.5 metres |
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What was the amount of space per family in 1940? |
4 metres |
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How did the urban population change from 1929 to 1940? |
It trebled |
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How did government spending change from 1929 to 1940? |
They still spent very little |
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What were conditions like in factory towns? |
- Several families to a room - Barrack style room - Limited sanitation - Some lived in mud huts |
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What sort of houses were built in the post war period? |
- Very poor quality - Leaky - not wired for electricity |
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Where did Stalin focus his house building? |
On collective farms where 900,000 homes were built |
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Where did Khrushchev focus his house building? |
In urban areas where houses doubled in quantity |
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How big were the new apartments? |
10 times bigger than the old communal apartments |
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How did these new houses change Soviet life? |
They gave families much more privacy and the state much less information |
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How did the party change to respond to this change? |
Introduced a new campaign to encourage good socialist behaviour |
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How did Brezhnev do housing? |
- Heavily subsidised - Low quality high quantity - Over half the homes in Moscow built under him |
