Russia 1855-1964 Social change
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- Created on: 28-05-18 15:21
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- Social change
- Reasons for social change
- Partially linked to economic change and ideology
- Population growth, natural rate of growth stimulated by better economic conditions
- Urbanisation of peasants into towns and cities
- Decline in the nobility, selling land to pay off debts
- Communist ideology placed an emphasis on equality and gave greater authority and responsibility to workers
- Extent of social change
- POPULATION GROWTH:
- 1858- 74 million inhabitants, 1960- 212 million inhabitants
- Must also recongise that the composition and extent of the empire changed
- SOCIAL STRUCTURE:
- End of 19th century still very rural based, 80% pop. reliant on agriculture.
- The rise of the middle class, 1914 2 mill middle class citizens
- Nobility in decline- 1870s gentry owned 200 million acres of land, 1914 140 million acres
- Dramatic change under the communists- majority of society were workers, but elite doinated hierarchical bureaucracy, status rankings began to appear in workers, by 1930s 1.5 mill managers
- POPULATION GROWTH:
- EDUCATION:
- TSARS:
- ELEMENTARY:
- Alexander II placed elementary under Zemstva control
- by 1877 the Ministry of Education had taken control and inspectors introduced
- 1880 23,000 primary schools, 1914 81,000
- SECONDARY:
- Alexander II 'new code', doubled number attending by 1865
- Alexander III banned lower class children
- HIGHER EDUCATION:
- Under Stolypin all non-academic meetings of students at unis illegal
- Alexander III took away much autonomy of unis
- ELEMENTARY:
- COMMUNISTS:
- ELEMENTARY:
- 1930 attendance at primary school made compulsory until 12
- By 1930 18 million children attending
- SECONDARY:
- 'Bourgeois' gymnasia scrapped and replaced with polytechnics
- By 1932 6.9 million children attending
- 1939 Stalin scrapped school fees
- ELEMENTARY:
- TSARS:
- Reasons for social change
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