Social developments:

  • 1930 government announces that full employment has been achieved

  • 1956 NMW introduced+pension provision expanded

  • 1956-65 expansion of the housing programme

  • 1966 regular wages introduced for collective farmers

  • 1974 passport system extended to rural population

  • 1957 reduction in the working week

Lenin:

  • Industrial production collapsed in 1918-21 civil war—>workers drifted to the countryside

  • FActories still in production had insuffiecient workers—>