Stalin and working men
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- Created on: 17-11-17 19:16
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- Working men under Stalin
- Had to identify as a Soviet worker
- Campaigns to improve behaviour, discouraged alcohol, to create more effective worker
- Attack on foreigners and bourgeois managers
- This offered room for advancement
- More technology and better education meant more opportunities for skilled workers
- They could get better pay, due to skill shortage
- When war broke out incomes fell due to funds being used on the war
- The five year plans
- Hard labour laws, men changed jobs a lot due to strict discipline
- Living conditions were awful, overcrowding, disease
- Hard labour laws, men changed jobs a lot due to strict discipline
- The five year plans
- When war broke out incomes fell due to funds being used on the war
- They could get better pay, due to skill shortage
- New Soviet man would embody the moality, values and characteristics a good Soviet citizen should posses
- Willing servant of the state
- Should be literate, have right attitudes
- Not represent backwards peasant
- Stalin believed people could be programmed and aquire characteristcs that could be passed down
- Magnitogorsk a way of producing the new man
- Impact of Stalin's policies
- Private housing not eliminated, 175 of houses in Magnitogorsk were private mud huts
- Campaigns to improve men's behaviour had limited success
- Oppositin to Stakhanovites, some people called it an attempt to enslave the working class
- Petty crime increased, the campaigns not effective
- Managers were desparate to meet their targets, they couldn't afford to sack workers
- lots of stress and chaos
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