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Employment under Stalin - Coggle Diagram
Employment under Stalin
Stalin pursued Five Year Plans to develop the USSR's economy and focus it on heavy industry. This demanded more workers.
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Social benefits
More social benefits were also introduced under Stalin, such as:
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Specialist jobs
During the 1920s and 1930s, the country was able to increase the number of specialist jobs
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From 1926 to 1939, the number of specialists rose from half a million to 12 million.
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By 1939, 33% of people worked outside agriculture.
After 1931, the government turned away from a system of egalitarian pay and a stricter hierarchy was introduced.
Historical assessment
Stephen Kotkin (1999): "Soviet workers were not passive objects of the state's design [...]." We should not assume that Soviet workers were brainwashed into working or enjoying their work.
For many people, especially those who moved to large cities from small villages, the security and rewards of being a Soviet worker were genuinely appealing and satisfying. Being a soviet worker gave people an identity.