Art and culture

a) Women and families:
At the beginning of Stalin’s government, women kept the same freedom they had under Lenin; they could easily divorce or abort. Later Stalin realized that the family structure was a “bourgeois institution”, thus, in his philosophy, was being prejudicial to the economy. Therefore, he made divorces more expensive and harder to obtain and abortion became illegal. Stalin’s fluctuation went from allowing women have more freedom to completely repressing them. This had an impact on the rest of the family. In 1934, juvenile crime increased massively, causing more social and economic chaos. “Nowhere is the contradiction of Stalinism greater than with the reluctant acceptance of the family.”
b) Religion:
At the beginning of Stalin’s rule people wer...