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Life Under Khrushchev (Society (Education (Khrushchev attempted to make…

- - - - In honour of 40th anniversary, 1917
    - - Liberated those who had previously been living one family to a room
  - - - This idea met with much criticism though, and kicked
- - - - Khrushchev wanted expansion of chemical industry, and development of fertiliser
      - 1956-1965 planned dates
      - Large investment in oil and natural gas
      - Major increase in consumer goods
      - However, due to the space and missile programmes, growth rates suffered
  - - - Policy to make use of dis-used land in places such as Kazakhstan and Siberia
        
        By 1956, 35.9 million acres
      - 300,000 Komsomol volunteers mobilised to settle un-cultivated land
      - Harvest in 1956 was largest in Soviet history
        
        Over 1/2 of the 125 million tons of grain was from new regions
      - However, declining output after 1958 due to intensive farming and unsuitable soil
    - - Khrushchev wanted maize grown everywhere, in order to revive meat and dairy farming industry
      - The corn would only ripen in Ukraine however
        
        85 million acres planted across Russia, only 1/6 was harvested ripe
- - - - Due to high food prices
    - - Troops were called in and 28 people killed
  - - - So as to quell their needs for uprising
      - Worker's standards of living raised and food prices held down
    - - A network of Soviet informers was used then, to root out ringleaders amongst intelligentsia
- - - - Soviet Union had already built socialism and was on way to creating communism
      - Communist party now a party of the whole people
      - Communist Party key institution to achieving communism
      - The party to be more accountable to the membership with limits on terms and rotations within office
      - Communist scoeity will be almost complete by 1980
      - By 1970, there will be no housing shortage
      - By 1980, income per head will have increased by 250%
  - - - One such book published was One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- - - - Consequently blamed by Khrushchev for uprising in East Berlin
    - - Shot after a secret trial 6 months later
  - - - Saw increased private plots and halved agricultural taxes
        
        Was blamed by Khrushchev for poor harvest of 1953
    - - Military also wanted huge investment into state defence