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Social Change under Stalin - The Cultural Revolution - Coggle Diagram
Social Change under Stalin - The Cultural Revolution
Women
Positives
Child support benefits supported larger families
Upper class women lived lives based in the ideology promoted by the wives movement
Negatives
Abortion was made illegal & divorce costly
Laws were passed against homosexuality & prostitution
NKVD became involved with juvenile crime - parents could be fined
Zhenotdel was shut down - maternity leave and equal pay ended
Working class women were expected to care for home/family & work
Religion
Positives
Peasants particularly maintained religious belief
Negatives
Religious expression was limited by the erosion of churches across the USSR
Church leaders & those attending religious ceremonies were persecuted (ie. sent to gulags or executed)
Ethnic minorities
Positives
Faced less discrimination than under the Romanovs, particularly when Lenin led the USSR
Negatives
Russification - primacy of Russian culture & Russians given power
Ethnic assimilation - dissimilar groups were forced to live together
Deportation - minorities sent to Asia
Ethnic minorities lost any semblance of independence
Education
Positives
Massive increases in literacy and primary school enrolment
Practical subjects & homework returned
More disciplined cirriculum
Facilitated the training of experts in science and industry
Negatives
Teachers went to the countryside to teach peasants or took up work in growing industries
Focus on propaganda instead of education slowed down improvements in literacy
Stalin controlled history through propaganda
Initial focus on drumming up support for Stalin & industrialisation led to failings in education and was replaced
Youth
Positives
Increase in child support benefits kept children off the streets
Komosomol bought children together
Counterrevolutionary groups still existed and many viewed the Komosomol as the 'chosen youth'
Negatives
Komosomol encouraged social atomisation
Children as young as 12 could be sentenced to death
Arts & Culture
Positives
Happy, upbeat tunes were created
Artists favorable to Stalin received benefits, ie. food
Negatives
Individual expression was limited
Artists could be persecuted for portraying the state negatively
Works were edited to promote Stalin's image
Didn't match the real lives of people
NOTE
Positives - for the people
Negatives - for the people