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Life in Communist Russia (Stalin) - Coggle Diagram
Life in Communist Russia (Stalin)
Communism
no private property
state ownership
one party dictatorship
cult of personality
propaganda and censorship
gulags
Purges
1 million removed from Communist party
Red army officials/commanders
arrests, accusations, torture, threats to family members,
execution.
Greater control of party
Greater fear to criticise Soviet life
Soviet army weakened
Show Trials
held in public
top leaders tried and accussed of committing crimes against the state
all confessed although innocent
Greater fear to criticise Soviet life
Five Year Plans
First Five Year Plan (1928-32): oil, coal, steel and electricity
Second Five Year Plan (1933-37): transport, underground, canal, rail links
Third Five Year Plan (1938-41): tanks, arms
and ammunition (WWII)
no employment, harsh working conditions
Growth of urban population, low living standards, new industrial cities built
Collectivisation
increase food production
resistance from peasants (kulaks), refused to surrender their farms.
millions killed or sent to gulags
1939: 99% of farms collectivised
Gulags
labour camps (Siberia)
harsh manual labour (felling trees, mining, building
railroads)
high death rates
extreme climates, hard labour, poor
food rations and unsanitary conditions
Life of Women
focus on high birth rate
rewards: money (more than 6 kids), medal (more than 9)
child allowance
50% of workplace
Divorce discouraged, contraception made illegal
Life of Workers
No unemployment
hard work encouraged
rewards for breaking production records
wages cut for failure to perform
Life for Young People
school complusory
Textbooks rewritten
Youth Organisations: Little Octobrists, Komsomol