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Life in communist Russia 1930's
- Moving into the cities
- 1930-40: 19 million moved
from the Kolkhoz to the city
- Life in the farms was poverty
- Overcrowding in cities
- Life in the farms was poverty
- 1930-40: 19 million moved
from the Kolkhoz to the city
- Religion
- Communists believed that religion was a
distraction from lives of misery- needed
to be stopped
- Many churches closed and priests deported
- 1939: Only 1 in 40 churches was still working
- 1939: Only 7 bishops active in whole of Soviet Union
- Big churches in Moscow
like the Christ the Saviour
cathedral were blown up
- Islam
- Only 1 in 20 mosques still working by 1941
- Leaders imprisoned
- Only 1 in 20 mosques still working by 1941
- However, 1937: 57% of Russians
still believed in God- high #
- Communists believed that religion was a
distraction from lives of misery- needed
to be stopped
- Education
- 1930: All education made free + compulsory
- 1939: Illiteracy rate gone down to
4% in males and 18% in females
- 50,000 more schools 1927-33
- Education geared towards
five year plans
- 70,000 libraries built
- 1930: All education made free + compulsory
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