Khruschev

• What did farm incomes increase by between 1952-56?

  250%
• How much did K increase tractors and fertilisers in 1955?

  30% and 40%
• What year was the Virgin Lands Scheme launched?

  September 1953
• How much did agricultural investment grow between 1954 and 1959?

  3% a year to 12%
• When was the Corn Campaign launched?


  September 1958
• How much could soviet farms produce compared to the USA?

  50%
• How much did agriculture rise due to the Virgin Land Schemes?

  35.3%
• What was wrong with Soviet agriculture?

  Inefficient, labour intensive
• How much higher was production in 1964 than 1958?


  15%
• What did K cut investment to from 1954-1960?

  12.8% to 2%
• When did Khrushchev begin military cuts?

  1955
• When was the 7yp?

  1959-1965
• What were the aims of the 7yp?

  Boost agricultural production and consumer goods
• Successes of the 7yp

  60% increase in consumer goods, chemical goods rose
• Problems of the 7yp

  Economy not designed to produce consumer goods
• What did K want to forge?

  An alliance between the Party and creative intellectuals
• When was the first thaw?

  1953-54
• When was the second thaw?

  1956-57
• When was the third thaw?

  1961-62
• What were the thaws?

  A relaxation in media, criticising parts of Stalin's regime
• When was the World Youth Festival?

  1957
• What did propaganda do in 1954?

  Poked fun at soviet people
• When did Yuri Gagarin become the first man in space?

  1961
• What was K's cult?

  Discipline to Lenin, hero of WWII, a great reformer
• When was K's first anti-religious campaign?

  1958
• What happened in the anti-religious campaign?

  Churches reclosed, anti-religious magazines and propaganda introduced
• When were roman catholic monasteries closed?

  1959
• What did the number of Orthodox Church buildings reduce to between 1958-64?

  8000-5000
• Who was the first woman in space in 1963?

  Valentina Tereshkova
• What percentage of industrial jobs went to women in the 60s?

  45%
• How many of the Soviet Union's graduates were women in the 1960s?

  1/2
• What were women subject to in the Virgin Land Scheme?

  Sexual abuse
• From 1953-83, how many women worked in the Party?


  19.7% to 26%
• What women's magazines emerged in 1956?

  Woman Worker, Peasant Woman, Women of the World, Soviet Women
• What year was abortion legalised?

  1955
• What did the death rate drop to between 1950 and 1965?

  9.7 to 7.3
• What new laws were introduced?

  Free lunch in schools, offices and factories, free public transport, full pensions and healthcare for farmers
• How much did urban housing increase from 1950-65?

  Doubled
• What did K order architects to do?

  Abandon Stalinist structures
• How much did schools increase by in towns and cities?

  Doubled