Living Conditions
Workers
Women
Quicksand Society
100

There was a shortage of these three goods/services.

What is water, shops and catering?

100

The workers were enthusiastic about the five year plans because of this reason.

What is a sense of cultural revolution?

100

This number of women entered the workforce. 

What is 10 million?


100

The majority of new workers were composed of this people group. 

What are ex-peasants?

200

This group of people were the majority of newcomers in urban living areas. 

What are peasants?

200

This type of people group volunteered to work in distant and hard working conditions. 

What are young people?

200

Due to two major factors, women were less well paid. 

What is less literacy and less technical education? 

200

The workers lacked these three traits. 

What is discipline, time-keeping and punctuality?

300

Cities and towns grew at this rate each month. 

What is 200,000?
300

Training courses improved life of workers in these four aspects. 

What are qualifications, position, pay and prospects? 

300

Women dominated these two professions.

What is medicine and school teaching?

300

The estimated amount of skilled workers in the workforce. (1951)

What is less than 7%?

400

There was a consumption decline of 2/3 of these three groups of food. 

What is meat, milk and fruit?

400

The party wanted to create this type of loyal workers. 

Who are proletarian intelligentsia?

400

Ex-peasant women were given these types of jobs. 

What are labourers and factory workers?

400

The number of average jobs a coal worker had in a year. 

What is 3?

500

In 1935, Stalin made this statement following the Five Year Plans. 

What is, "Life has become better, comrades, life has become more joyous."

500

Successful workers were celebrated in these 4 ways. 

What is higher pay, better working conditions, better housing and praise in the newspapers. 

500

The only 17 women of 328 factory directors worked in these factories. 

What are textiles and sewing factories? 

500

One communist leader talked about Russia being this type of camp.

What is a huge nomadic gypsy camp?