changes to urban living conditions between 1855 - 1964
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- CHANGES TO URBAN LIVING CONDITIONS BETWEEN 1855 - 1964
- in comparison to places like Britain and America, Russia was still a rural country
- with only 15% of the population living in towns and cities, rather than 80% in Britain and 40% in the USA
- by 1914 there were over 1000 towns containing about 2 million buildings
- over 50% of the housing was made from wood
- these were prone to fire damage
- most houses and streets were lit by kerosene lamps
- only 74 towns had access to electricity
- only 35 had access to gas
- about 200 had piped water and 38 had a sewerage system
- NICK II
- lots of diseases spread due to urbanisation
- Urbanisation means an increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas compared to rural areas
- for example there were over 100,000 deaths due to cholera in St Petersburg in 1910
- lots of diseases spread due to urbanisation
- over 50% of the housing was made from wood
- lots of diseases spread due to urbanisation
- Urbanisation means an increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas compared to rural areas
- for example there were over 100,000 deaths due to cholera in St Petersburg in 1910
- special workers housing was built near industrial cities
- these houses were built quickly and were often overcrowded and insanitary
- the decree of Land by the Bolsheviks in 1917 focused on what the party wanted to do about housing
- LENIN
- dwellings in towns and cities were to be taken from private owners
- and handed over to the proletariat under the guidance of the soviets
- improvements made to housing by Lenin were reversed by Stalin
- the Stalinist policy allocated space rather than rooms to individuals and families
- especially within the new high rise tenements
- overcrowding became the norm once again
- in Moscow in the mid 1930's, different families often had to share one room
- the Stalinist policy allocated space rather than rooms to individuals and families
- the second world war resulted in 25 million Russians being made homeless
- the housing stock doubled from 1955 to 1964 and the principals of communal living were abandoned
- Krushchev
- however the introduction of housing co-operatives tended to favour the professional classes as they were the only ones that could afford the deposit
- in comparison to places like Britain and America, Russia was still a rural country
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