Unit 3: Social Key Terms

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Natural Rate of Growth
Relationship between birth rates and how it affected population growth
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Census
Official count of the number of population
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Tenements
Similar to blocks of flats
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Housing cooperatives
Organisations formed by employees who belonged to the same work enterprise or professional union. They were given first pickings over new state housing.
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American Relief Adminstration
A US relief mission to aid Europe including Russia af
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State Pricing Mechanism
The government policy of providing official prices for goods and services
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Workers' insurance system
Insurance against being injured in the workplace
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Bonus schemes
Where extra payments were made to workers for exceeding individual production targets
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Orthodix Religion
Established and traditional beliefs of Russian Orthodox Church which had it's roots in Greek Orthodox Church
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Non-Orthodox Religion
Refers to any set of beliefs that differed from those of the Orthodox Church
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Social Control
Control by government of the beliefs, attitudes and actions of the members of society through careful organisation and administration of particular institutions e.g. education, religion
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'Opium of the people'
The view that religion was like a drug that took people's minds off of economic and social problems (Karl Marx)
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Patriachy
A male-dominated form of organisation and rule
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Old Believers
Those who believed in the most traditional form of the Russian Orthodox Church
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Sectarians
Anyone who belonged to a group who held extreme and often unusual religious views
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Agro-Towns
Housing on collective farms that worked as a unit (Khrushchev)
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Special Committee on Famine Relief
Set up by Alexander III to resolve problems from the famine of 1891
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Card 2

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Official count of the number of population

Back

Census

Card 3

Front

Similar to blocks of flats

Back

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Card 4

Front

Organisations formed by employees who belonged to the same work enterprise or professional union. They were given first pickings over new state housing.

Back

Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

Front

A US relief mission to aid Europe including Russia af

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Preview of the back of card 5
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