Social and cultural change by 1941

• Cultural revolution 1928 - 1931
• role of komsomols

  • 14 to 28
  • 2 million
  • impose labour discipline
  • lead campaign against religion
  • weed out peers
  • smash old art and paintings
• shakhty trial is marker of beginning

  • 53 miners and technicians
  • 41 days long
  • gosplan up targets resulting
• religion - 1931

  • taxes increase on church
  • 80% of village churches shut
  • 60k priests to over 5000
• Education

  • students become labourers
  • Nonparty teachers replaced by red specialists
  • Identified briget students - bresnov generation
• art

  • class war
  • old paintings destroyed
  • emphasis on lower class backgrounds celebrated
• literature

  • most writers stop writing
  • RAPP become censorship centre
• cinema

  • soviet cinema raised cultural level of masses
• only effective thing i attack on church
• great retreat

  • collectivisation and industrialisation had broken down family and birth rates and divorce
  • retreat to pre communism ideals
• family - 1936 family code launched

  • abortion banned
  • divorce made harder and fees
  • child support payments are fixed and encouraged brith rate
  • laws against prostitution, homosexuality
• education

  • homework and textbooks back
  • communist uniforms
  • nationalistic history returns and justifies Soviet Union through Ivan
• inequality and privelage

  • work piece rates
  • bonuses and stakhonovite
  • tittles creep in
  • no egalitarian - new apartments and party max pay abolished
  • tsarism
• Russification

  • 1938 - compulsory to learn Russian
  • prasied imperialism of tsarism in school
• socialism realism - art

  • working class artists celebrated
  • photographic and scenic pictures needed as propaganda
• art propaganda

  • tables have with food adn tractor to battle famine
  • handle and sickle and Vera scullpture - gender equality
• music

  • everything happy
  • folk music
  • criticised opera in Pravda a
• literature

  • Maxim Gorky under house arrest
  • state control of work
  • writers practice silence
  • cement - great conveyor belt and how steel was tempered are pushed
  • Anna Akhmatova - banned
• no retreat on land private ownership or hiring labour