human cost of economic policy under stalin 1928-1941

How many peasants migrated to urban centres of the soviet union 1928-40

20 million

What did party officials worry about surrounding the peasants who migrated

Tehy drank, lack of discipline and lack of general conciousness but party officials worried this may infect younger workers

Issues in industrial towns like magnitogorsk

Ivercrowding as planners werent abl to meet needs to urban dwellers

What % of workers lived in mud huts they built themsleves

25

What was the actual urban population vs plan

Actual - 38.7 million

Plan - 32.5 million

How much did hosuing actually grow by vs plan

Actual - 16% increase

Plan - 33% increase

When did rationing end

Jan 1935

When did real wages decline

1930s

What % of 1928 levels weremoscow real wages by 1932

52%

Nationally when was the level of real wages of 1925 regained

1950s

1928-32 by what % did the consumption of meat by the working class fall by

60

What were the positive developments

Increase in provision for

• education

• Health care

• Employment for women

Women in industrial workforce 1928 vs 1936 vs 1940

3 mil vs 9 mil vs 13 mil

But what difficulties did women still have

Women paid less and ofund it more difficult to gain advancement

Of 328 factory directors how many were owmen and how many of these were in textiles

20, 17

In textiles and sewing factories what proportion of workers were women

¾

Annual growth rate 1928-1941

10%