27/02/2017 · Everyday Life in the Soviet Union. This is the second of three articles by Anna Malyukova about her memories of the Soviet Union, where she grew up and lived before its collapse. Anna’s account is not a detached political analysis of the situation in the former Soviet Union but rather a story of her personal experiences, which illustrate the deep ...

30/03/2021 · The Soviet Union struggled to fight against over-drinking by reducing vodka shops and limiting the store opening times. Taxi drivers benefitted from the situation (but also snowplough drivers), who...

07/01/2020 · Daily life in the Soviet Union, it turns out, was in many ways, just like you've heard, especially in the early days of famines and forced labor camps. But like any large, modern country/union - and the USSR was literally the largest - the quality of life in Soviet Russia varied wildly over the years, depending on many complicated factors. Read on for some fascinating …

30/11/2017 · Life expectancy actually fell in the Soviet Union during the 1960s and 1970s. The USSR had the highest physician-patient ratio in the world, triple the UK rate, but many medical school graduates could not perform basic tasks like reading an electrocardiogram. 15% of the population lived in areas with pollution 10x normal levels.

26/12/2014 · Everyday Soviet life was seen as a history of repression, rationing, privation, famine, “survival strategies,” control, and social stratification. It was intimately tied to the campaign for Soviet culturedness ( kul’turnost’ ), meaning the inculcation of proper manners and taste, which began in the second half of the 1930s.

03/06/2016 · The Soviet Union was a country where you could go out at any time of the day without the fear of being attacked by someone who's very unfriendly. In today's Russia, people living on ground floors often mount metal bars on their windows and almost all people have steel entrance doors at their apartments.

Answer (1 of 4): The Soviet state was the first in the world to introduce an 8-hour working day, guaranteed free education and health care, almost free housing, a pension, paid rest, the world's cheapest public transport. The USSR was the first in Europe after the war - …

The Nature of Everyday Life in Communist Eastern Europe Everyday life is made up of daily and weekly routines and experiences. In all societies the availability, affordability, and quality of life-sustaining material goods (i.e., food, water, housing, and clean air) are important determinants of everyday life and the values ensuing from it.