Khrushchev

• • K-7 construction saw urban housing double from 1950-65.
  • Healthcare budget rose by 22B roubles from 1950-59.
  • Pensions budget quadrupled from 1950-65, pensioners increased by 3.4M.
• Khrushchev's Stable Society overview

  • Health and Welfare.
  • Housing.
• Health and Welfare under Khrushchev

  • Khrushchev believed that a socialist society should look after the welfare of all, therefore he increased investment in healthcare.
  • Soviet healthcare budget doubled in Khrushchev's first years; increased to 44 billion roubles in 1959.
  • Death rate decreased to 7.3 per 1000 in 1965. Infant mortality decreased to 27 per 1000 births in 1965.
  • Pensions budget quadrupled from 1950-65.
  • New laws introduced; free lunches in schools and offices; free public transport; full pensions and healthcare for farmers.
• Housing under Khrushchev

  • From 1950-65 the amount of urban housing doubled.
  • Khrushchev was successful, deliberately constructing more urban homes.
  • Khrushchyovka; allowed families to have an entire apartment; included a bathroom and a separate room for parents; apartments were 10 times bigger than Kommunalka; Khrushchyovka's had 5 storeys and urban blocks had elevators.
  • Khrushchyovka's recreated privacy; authorities could no longer rely on informants in dormitories so new propaganda campaign launched to encourage citizens to live 'good socialist lives'.