Social and cultural developments 1918 - 1928

• what changes are made to marriage

  • 1917 divorce law terminates marriages due to incompatability and one party needed
  • 25x higher divorce rate
  • Weaponised by men to leave children and women - domestic violence and rape becomes common due to housing shortage
• what are impacts on children?

  • 7 - 9 million orphaned due to war
  • stealing and prostitution arises
• how were women in the workforce impacted

  • Same percentage of women in industry as tsar times
  • Women went from skilled to unskilled to prostitution
  • eight hours at work and five at home whilst men did nothing
• Lenin believed you couldn’t seperate education from communism acceptance

  • shouldn’t be neutral
  • cleanse students of bourgeoise
• what changes were made to education

  • Schools put under comissar for enlightenment control and centralise education
  • Tecahers lost authority and became assistants
• what was the impact of eduction changes

  • Teachers couldnt discipline or set homework
  • Weren’t familiar with new methods
  • students still ended up on streets
  • teachers paid 1/4 of workers pay
  • nearly 50% kids still belied in god and developed negative attitudes to communism
• how wa illiteracy tackled

  • 8-50 had to learn to read or write
  • Proseution entailed
  • 5 million European Russians went to courses
  • drops by 15% by 1927
• how does he tackle youth groups =?

  • 40 million members all together by 1927 but not effective enough
• what was Lenin belief on religion

  • Aethiest
  • backwards and underpinned exploitation
  • brings conflict with church
• what did Lenin tackle religion with

  • decree of seperation of church and state e
  • all church members are bourgeoise
  • propoganda campaign
  • debates in newspapers
  • over 8000 killed in resistance and thousands of priest arrested
• more than 55% called themselves Christian’s
• agitational art is pushed

  • October film is pushed which exaggerated Bolshevik takeover