1.2 central + local gov + repression Flashcards

1
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what is democratic centralism

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-bolsheviks - ppl would be led by cadre (group of personnel) until workers gov in place - never happens

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2
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1921 - 1928 bolshevik party membership

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increasingly important for social mobility
-730,000 to 1million

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3
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what did the Bolshevik party become

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increasingly centralised and nepotistic -

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4
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attempts to democratise party

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lenin enrollment - introduce peasants - fails 500,000 recruited - stalin controls as party secretary

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5
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Lenin’s structure of gov in theory

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sovnarkom + central executive committee = 2 executive bodies
-controlled by all Russian congress of soviets

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6
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Lenin’s structure of gov in reality

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executive bodies control legislature - sovnarkom apex of power

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7
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what did sovnarkom become under Stalin

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politburo

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8
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terror:alex III

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statue state security 1881 - okrhana replace third chancellory

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9
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terror: Nicholas

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father gapon agent provocateur jan 1905 winter palace

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10
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police - what did prov gov set up

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counter espionage bureau of Petrograd military district - weed out bolsheviks undermining war effort

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11
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NKVD - how many people sent to gulags in Stalin rule

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40 million

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12
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by 1938 how many NKVD members purged

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20,000

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13
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censorship in Alex II reign

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1855 50 periodicals published that were unofficial

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14
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Nicholas II glasnost evidence

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1900-1914 three fold increase in periodical publish

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15
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Nicholas II glasnost - newspaper

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kopek = bolshevik newspaper

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16
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lenin propoganda - 1921

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1921 agitprop department - idealised russian life

17
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stalin censorship writers

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had to represent ‘socialist realism’ - Pasternak change beliefs to appease USW

18
Q

censorship Khrushchev

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65,000 books late 1950s per yr

19
Q

Stalin’s propoganda

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new soviet man + stakhonivte

20
Q

Khrushchev propoganda filsm

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1959 145 films made

21
Q

cult of personality Stalin

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1924 ‘stalin is the lenin of today’ slogans

22
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terror lenin - 1921 krondstat

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20,000 sailors w/ 45,000 gov troops in repressed with FORCE

23
Q

terror Nicholas - lena goldfields

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1912 lena goldfields 500 shot

24
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repression - ural siberian

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kommosol group to countryside for collectivisation