Social Change 1855 - 1964
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- Social Change 1855 - 1964
- Reasons for Social Change
- Population growth due to a natural rate of growth (rising birth rate and falling death rate), stimulated by better economic conditions
- Large numbers of peasant families moved to towns/cities in search of industrial employment
- Nobility declined by 1914 - mainly as a result of having to sell land to pay off debts
- Communist ideology placed an emphasis on equality and gave a greater amount of authority and responsibility to workers
- Population Growth
- 1858 = 74 Million inhabitants of the Russian Empire
- 1960 = 212 million inhabitants of the USSR
- Social Structure
- End of 1890s, Russian society still 80% population (agricultural)
- The rise of the middle class was a significant development - by 1914 around 2 million fell into the middle-class bracket
- Nobility = in decline. 1870s - Gentry owned 200 million acres of land. Fell to 140 million in 1914.
- Under the communists, majority of society was made up of workers - after a while, status rankings appeared among these - 1930s - 1.5 million promotions of ordinary workers to managers.
- The Provision of Education
- The Tsars
- A2 placed the administration of elementary education with the Zemstva
- No. of Primary Schools rose 1880 - 1914 - 23,000 to 81,0000
- A3 took away much of the autonomy of universities
- The Communists
- 1930 - primary school attendance made compulsory. By then 18 million children were attending primary schools
- 1939 - Stalin scrapped school fees
- The Tsars
- Reasons for Social Change
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