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18 Post-Stalin Era: Economy and Society. Overview A.Main Themes B.Demography C.Economy D.Society.

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Page 1: 18 Post-Stalin Era: Economy and Society. Overview A.Main Themes B.Demography C.Economy D.Society.

18Post-Stalin Era: Economy and

Society

Page 2: 18 Post-Stalin Era: Economy and Society. Overview A.Main Themes B.Demography C.Economy D.Society.

Overview

A. Main Themes

B. Demography

C. Economy

D. Society

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A. Main Themes

1. Significant shifts in demographic patterns: rising life expectancy, decreasing fertility (except Asians)

2. Urbanization 3. Agriculture: from panacea to panic4. Industrial Sector: from high rates of growth to

stagnation, decline5. Growing reliance on primary commodities6. Abortive reformism7. Ecological disasters8. From egalitarianism to inequality

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B. Demography

1. Population increase

2. Ethnic differences

3. Dynamics: fertility and mortality

4. Urbanization

5. Social problems: housing, alcoholism, crime

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C. Economy1. Overview

• Agricultural investment, crisis, stagnation

• Industrial spurt to stagnation and decline

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C. Economy2. Agricultural Sector

a. Patterns

b. Khrushchev Era1. Reorganization

2. Virgin lands

3. Intensification: kolkhoz, maize, agronomics

4. Crisis of early 1960s

c. Brezhnev Era1. New approaches

2. Reforms: modernization, labor, plots

3. Negative results

4. Why?

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Khrushchev’s Souvenir from Iowa (1959)

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Khrushchev: Corn Panacea

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Krokodil: Anti-Corn Cartoon

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Satire: One plows, the rest grab for the spoon

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C. Economy3. Industrial Sector

a. Patternsb. Khrushchev era

1. Decentralization (sovnarkhozy)2. Reprioritization3. Results

c. Brezhnev era1. Modernizing Marxist economics2. Kosygin reforms3. Cybernetics4. Why the stagnation?

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Sputnik (1957)

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Iurii Gagarin: World’s First Cosmonaut (1961)

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Gagarin in Space: Komsomolskaia Pravda (1961)

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Shoddy Apartment Construction

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Needle Factory: Waste (1966)

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Prize: 100,000th Person to Write in the “Complaint Book”

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Abel Aganbegian

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C. Economy4. Dysfunctions

a. Black market

b. Environmental disasters

c. Social unrest

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Lake Baikal: Birth of Soviet Environmentalism

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Aral Sea, 1989-2003

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Aral Sea: Contraction, Breakup

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Aral Sea: Scenes of Devastation

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Chernobyl (1986)

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Novocherkassk Leader (1962)

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D. Society

1. Patterns

2. Income Structures

3. Consumerism

4. Social Services

5. Nomenklatura: Elites

6. Workers and Peasants

7. Women and Family

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“Women’s Day”: Soviet Patriarchy1963 Satire

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E. Conclusions