Women and Children
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- Women and Children
- Education
- 1920s
- Young people encouraged to challenge views of parents and teachers
- no textbooks or emans
- 1930s
- Discipline is essential
- Komsomol
- Training for work force
- Parents to teach children to have respect
- Modernise USSR
- Increase literacy standards
- /Indoctrination
- Core curriculum
- 10 years compulsory schooling
- fees fior last 3 years of school
- Not communist
- 1929 to 1940 number of children attending rose from 12 to 35 million
- from 1926 to 1940 literacy rate from 51 to 88%
- elite society
- tutors
- the party decided who got the training for university
- tutors
- Teaching of great Russians
- Textbooks
- Discipline is essential
- 1920s
- Family
- 1920s
- Family and marriage considered Bourgeosie
- Free Love
- Capitalist marriage laws abused women
- Women joined the party
- divorce made legal - wedding rings banned 1928
- recognized illegitimate children as full citizens
- abortion legalised
- state responsible for raising children
- wanted to raise children separately from parents but too costly
- by 1927 1/3 of all marriages in Moscow ended in divorce
- By end of 1920s Russian divorce rates highest in Europe
- Orphans - Women poor
- 1930s
- Traditional family roles and sexual attitudes reinstated
- Propaganda encouraged family
- Stalin seen as Father
- Often pictured with children
- Stalin seen as Father
- STable family
- Good communists are socially responsible
- closed down Zhenotdel ( womens branch of CPSU)
- Decline in birth rates due to collectivisation/5yearplans/famine
- Women rewarded 7 - 2000 roubles 11- 5000 roubles
- 1937 91% of men and 82% of women married
- Contraception unavailable
- 1934 abstinence no sex before marriage government campiagn
- Had to pay for divorce (basically illegal)
- Homosexuality /incest,bigamy illegal 1936
- 1944 abortion outlawed
- Increased taxes for families with less than two children
- 1920s
- Women
- undermined after sexual liberation under Lenin
- Housewives movement replaced Zhenotdel
- Mother and worker
- 1930s only earned 60% of what men did for the same job
- 1930-45 80% of agriculture workers women
- Education
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