1E.4 Social developments, 1917–85 Quiz: Pearson Edexcel History, Unit 5

The 20 questions

1. What economic right was guaranteed to Soviet citizens under the 1936 Constitution?

   • Universal basic income
   • Freedom to strike
   • Private property
   • Full employment

2. What term describes Brezhnev's exchange of welfare benefits for political compliance?

   • Great Turn
   • Social contract
   • Cultural revolution
   • War Communism

3. Which Communist Party department was created in 1919 to promote women's rights?

   • Sovnarkom
   • Rabkrin
   • Komsomol
   • Zhenotdel

4. What did the Soviet concept of the double burden refer to for women?

   • Employment and housework
   • Military and factory service
   • Childcare and farming quotas
   • Education and party work

5. What major educational goal was largely achieved across the Soviet Union by the 1950s?

   • Universal literacy
   • Private schooling
   • Selective grammar schools
   • Religious instruction

6. What term describes Stalin's conservative shift in family policy during the 1930s?

   • The Great Retreat
   • The Great Turn
   • The Cultural Revolution
   • War Communism

7. What major change to Soviet abortion law occurred in 1936 under Stalin?

   • It became compulsory
   • It was subsidised
   • It was outlawed
   • It was decriminalised

8. What term describes Brezhnev's policy of offering social stability in exchange for political compliance?

   • Socialist realism
   • Cultural revolution
   • Social alienation
   • Social contract

9. What was the name for overcrowded communal apartments shared by Soviet families?

   • Khrushchevka
   • Dacha
   • Kommunalka
   • Gulag

10. What mass campaign was launched by the Bolsheviks in 1919 to eradicate illiteracy?

    • Likbez
    • Komsomol
    • Narkompros
    • Rabfak

11. How was healthcare funded for Soviet citizens under the Soviet constitution?

    • Out-of-pocket fees
    • Free state provision
    • Employer contributions
    • Private insurance

12. What key economic right was guaranteed to all citizens in the 1936 Soviet Constitution?

    • Right to property
    • Right to work
    • Right to protest
    • Right to strike

13. What special educational institution prepared Soviet industrial workers for university entry?

    • Kommunalka
    • Zhenotdel
    • Rabfak
    • Sovnarkhoz

14. What was the primary purpose of state control over Soviet school curricula?

    • Foreign language fluency
    • Ideological indoctrination
    • Economic privatisation
    • Religious preservation

15. Which social group was excluded from state pension coverage in the USSR until 1964?

    • Factory workers
    • Railway employees
    • State schoolteachers
    • Collective farm workers

16. What term describes the combined pressure of employment and domestic work on Soviet women?

    • Great Retreat
    • Glass ceiling
    • Double burden
    • Social contract

17. What nickname was given to mass-produced, low-cost concrete Soviet apartment blocks from the 1950s?

    • Khrushchevka
    • Brezhneva
    • Stalinka
    • Kommunalka

18. What was the primary official Communist organisation for Soviet teenagers and young adults?

    • Little Octobrists
    • Komsomol
    • Young Pioneers
    • Zhenotdel

19. Which issue contributed significantly to falling male life expectancy in the USSR during the 1970s?

    • Cholera
    • Alcoholism
    • Malnutrition
    • Malaria

20. Which welfare benefit was provided to retired workers in the Soviet Union?

    • Housing subsidies
    • Sick pay
    • State pensions
    • Unemployment benefit

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