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in what year did bolsheviks start programme confiscating large houses of rich?
'17
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what did they do to them?
partition and rent to worker families
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houses allocated according to what incredibly non communist if i may say so thing?
rank in the party
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rather than?
need
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what was housing reality?
not enough to meet demands
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enormous growth of towns / industrial centres under what put strain on housing?
5yps
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housing low priority so recieved what?
few resources
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but focus on what increased worker housing demands?
industrialisation
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where saw exceptional growth?
established cities
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what was the population of moscow in '29?
2.2m
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and in '36?
4.1m
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towns of which region saw doubling population in '30s?
donbass coal and steel region
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how many ppl lived in magnitogorsk in '29?
25
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to how many '32?
250,000
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what did these new industrial centres lack that were in otehr towns?
range facilities
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why were housing resources often non-existant?
rush to industrialise overtook
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which three places did workers have to sleep?
tents / huts / factories
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conditions improved in '30s but literally they p much just did what?
made barracks for them
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what were built where resources would allow?
blocks of flats
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all looked same and included elements to promote communism like what was the deal with kitchens?
communal
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allocation of modern apt with heating / water / electric was only realistic hope for who?
those who showed impressive commitment to fulfilling plan
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in '36 what % rented units consisted of more than one room?
6%
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and in what % cases was it only part of a room?
24%
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what % ppl renting lived in a kitchen / corridor?
5%
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and what % lived in dormitories?
25%
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figures illustrate pressure that must have existed on what?
family life
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was rent spenny?
no
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with vvvvv few families spending over what % income on rent?
8%
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lakc privacy goes some way to explaining communist youth groups which did what in evenings?
got children out of the house (you get the allusion, right?)
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improvements in what kind of housing were even slower?
rural
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what were peasants on collectives expected to do?
provide own housing
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which was most often p much what?
one-room timber hut
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what exacerbated lack of available housing in the early 40s?
wwii
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stalingrad lost what % of its housing?
90%
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housing was low priority under which 5yps?
4th + 5th
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which tackled post-war reconstruction by focusing on what?
heavy industry (see he was trying some brilliant new methods here then)
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in moscow vast resources were used to build what?
a stupid transport system
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with stations decorated with what?
sculptures and murals
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in what architectural style we learnt about earlier?
'stalinist baroque'
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