Social Developments


	Lenin	Stalin
	War Communism - Work Compulsory 16-50 Work Card - Social Benefits, food and drink, fuel, housing and transport. Failed - Rationing didn't work and people abandoned factories in search of food. NEP - Unemployment returned as soldiers demobilised, creches abolished making it harder for women to work. Urban workers entitled to - social insurance which paid disability benefits, maternity benefits unemployment and medical benefits. peasants had no right to welfare.	compulsory work reintroduced. labour discipline in factories tough Moscow Metro Vaccines Canteens for workers Peasants not entitled to rations rotted food led to illness sanitation was a huge problem kommunalka - communal apartments, one family per room.
	Khrushchev	Brezhnev
	doubled spending on healthcare from 1950-59. x4 Pension budget Free lunches for many improvement in soviet life expectancy low cost high building blocks so families could have flats.	The Social Contract - he will invest in social issues if the public promise to conform. Job Security, low prices, second economy, some social mobility. Relatively high standard of living. traditional ideas.

War Communism - Work Compulsory 16-50
Work Card - Social Benefits, food and drink, fuel, housing and transport.
Failed - Rationing didn't work and people abandoned factories in search of food.
NEP - Unemployment returned as soldiers demobilised, creches abolished making it harder for women to work.
Urban workers entitled to - social insurance which paid disability benefits, maternity benefits unemployment and medical benefits.
peasants had no right to welfare.

The Social Contract - he will invest in social issues if the public promise to conform.
Job Security, low prices, second economy, some social mobility.
Relatively high standard of living.
traditional ideas.

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