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Domestic Policies (Aims and Impacts) - Coggle Diagram
Domestic Policies (Aims and Impacts)
Women
Voting Rights
Aim to win support among women
Equal Working Rights
Aim to win support among women
However, impact of creating a double work scenario -> women had to work and take care of children
Minorities
Nationalities Policy (1923)
Aim to give minor ethnicities a semblance of freedom
Deportations from Baltics, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, etc.
Aim to prevent extra problems in case of a war
Lots of people died before reaching destinations
Political
Constitution of USSR (1936)
Aim to legitimise USSR by emphasising "democracy"
Political Purges
Opponents
They silenced the political opposition
Social Revolutionaries
Trotsky and Trotskyists
Mensheviks
Inter-Party
To get new energy into the party who would not speak up against him
Pyatakov-Radek trial
Bukharin-Rykov
Around 750,000 members were sent to the gulag
Kamenev-Zinoviev trial
Cultural
Religious Purge
80% of churches closed down through high taxes
1917-1935: 95,000 priests killed
Aim to eradicate religious influence so that everyone would turn to the state
Promotion of education
Drastic increase in literacy rate
Decrease in objective education -> aim to promote ideology
Socialist Realism
Art
Literature
Film
Aim to promote Stalinism and glorify workers and farmers
Impact on free speech -> only those loyal to Stalin could create
Social
De-kulakization
Ideological = against richer Peasants
Transformation of rural life
Power and fear for government established
Russification Policy during 1930s
Aim to assimilate non-Russian countries into USSR, strengthen imperial power and create a sense of unity
Led to suppression of minority cultures which fueled resentment towards regime