Many churches were clsoed.
Many priests were deported and banned from voting.
By 1939 only one in forty churches held regular services.
By 1939 there were only 1300 mosques.
60 per cent of Russians said they were christians.
Artists and writers were forced to adopt Soviet Realism.
Novels and paintings had to glorify ordinary workers.
History lessons presented Stalin's views.
Their were compulsory lessons in socialist values.
Children under 15 joined the Pioneers where they were indoctrinated.
Women were made equals of men under Soviet law.
By 1935 42 per cent of all industrial workers were women.
The Second Five Year Plan would have failed without women workers.
Some women were able to access technical training and management positions.
Most women remained in law skilled, low paid jobs.
Abortion was made illegal.
Divorce was made more difficult in the 1930s.
Divorced fathers had to pay maintenance.
Mothers recieved a cash payment of 2000 roubles per year for each child.
Parents could be fined if their children caused trouble.
Value of workers' wages during 1st Five year plan fell by 50%.
Average worker in 1930s Moscow ate 20% of the meat and fish they ate in 1900.
There was a lack of consumer goods.
There was a new social hierarchy of skilled workers and managers.
At the very top of society there was a new ruling class called the nomenclatura.
