Editing History of Russia (section)

===Changes to Russian society===
{{Main|Cultural Revolution in the Soviet Union}}
[[File:8marta.jpg|thumb|Soviet poster from 1932 symbolizing the reform of "old ways of life", dedicated to liberation of women from traditional roles]]

As the Russian Empire included during this period not only the region of Russia, but also today's territories of Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Finland, Moldavia and the Caucasian and Central Asian countries, it is possible to examine the firm formation process in all those regions. One of the main determinants of firm creation for given regions of Russian Empire might be urban demand of goods and supply of industrial and organizational skill.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Baten|first1=Jörg|last2=Behle|first2=Dominic|year=2010|title=Regional Determinants of Firm Creation in the Russian Empire. Evidence from the 1870 Industrial Exhibition|journal=Russian Economic History Yearbook|volume=01|via=ResearchGate}}</ref>

While the Russian economy was being transformed, the social life of the people underwent equally drastic changes. The Family Code of 1918 granted women equal status to men, and permitted a couple to take either the husband or wife's name.<ref>{{cite web|title=Women and the Russian Revolution|url=https://www.bl.uk/russian-revolution/articles/women-and-the-russian-revolution|last=McElvanney|first=Katie|website=British Library|access-date=11 May 2020|archive-date=1 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801145838/https://www.bl.uk/russian-revolution/articles/women-and-the-russian-revolution|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Divorce]] no longer required court procedure,<ref name="pushkareva">{{cite web|url=http://www.iisg.nl/~womhist/pushkareva.doc|title=Marriage in Twentieth Century Russia: Traditional Precepts and Innovative Experiments|access-date=23 July 2007|last=Pushkareva|first=Natalia|format=.doc|publisher=Russian Academy of Sciences|archive-date=26 July 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070726224821/http://www.iisg.nl/%7Ewomhist/pushkareva.doc|url-status=live}}</ref>
and to make women completely free of the responsibilities of childbearing, abortion was made legal as early as 1920.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Remennick | first1 = Larissa | year = 1991 | title = Epidemiology and Determinants of Induced Abortion in the USSR | journal=Soc. Sci. Med. | volume = 33 | issue = 7| pages = 841–848 | doi = 10.1016/0277-9536(91)90389-T | pmid = 1948176 }}</ref> As a side effect, the emancipation of women increased the labor market. Girls were encouraged to secure an education and pursue a career. Communal nurseries were set up for child care, and efforts were made to shift the center of people's social life from the home to educational and recreational groups, the soviet clubs.

The Soviet government pursued a policy of eliminating illiteracy ([[Likbez]]). After industrialization, massive [[urbanization]] began. In the field of national policy in the 1920s, the [[Korenizatsiya]] was carried out. However, from the mid-30s, the Stalinist government returned to the tsarist policy of [[Russification]] of the outskirts. In particular, the languages of all the nations of the USSR were transcribed into the Cyrillic alphabet in the process known as [[Cyrillization]].