Family in the Soviet Union
The view of the Soviet family as the basic social unit in society evolved from revolutionary to conservative; the government of the Soviet Union first attempted to weaken the family and then to strengthen it from the 1930s onwards.
Soviet women's journal founded in 1914 that featured relatively liberal content
Reconstruction of a typical 1950s Soviet living room
Soviet people of mixed ages queuing to a Kharkov cinema,1981
The New Economic Policy (NEP) was an economic policy of the Soviet Union proposed by Vladimir Lenin in 1921 as a temporary expedient. Lenin characterized the NEP in 1922 as an economic system that would include "a free market and capitalism, both subject to state control", while socialized state enterprises would operate on "a profit basis".
Reestablishment of a stable currency, the gold-backed chervonets, was an essential policy component of the Soviet state's return to a money-based economy
"Nepmen", caricature by Dmitry Kardovsky, 1920s