1.2 central + local gov + repression Flashcards
what is democratic centralism
-bolsheviks - ppl would be led by cadre (group of personnel) until workers gov in place - never happens
1921 - 1928 bolshevik party membership
increasingly important for social mobility
-730,000 to 1million
what did the Bolshevik party become
increasingly centralised and nepotistic -
attempts to democratise party
lenin enrollment - introduce peasants - fails 500,000 recruited - stalin controls as party secretary
Lenin’s structure of gov in theory
sovnarkom + central executive committee = 2 executive bodies
-controlled by all Russian congress of soviets
Lenin’s structure of gov in reality
executive bodies control legislature - sovnarkom apex of power
what did sovnarkom become under Stalin
politburo
terror:alex III
statue state security 1881 - okrhana replace third chancellory
terror: Nicholas
father gapon agent provocateur jan 1905 winter palace
police - what did prov gov set up
counter espionage bureau of Petrograd military district - weed out bolsheviks undermining war effort
NKVD - how many people sent to gulags in Stalin rule
40 million
by 1938 how many NKVD members purged
20,000
censorship in Alex II reign
1855 50 periodicals published that were unofficial
Nicholas II glasnost evidence
1900-1914 three fold increase in periodical publish
Nicholas II glasnost - newspaper
kopek = bolshevik newspaper
lenin propoganda - 1921
1921 agitprop department - idealised russian life
stalin censorship writers
had to represent ‘socialist realism’ - Pasternak change beliefs to appease USW
censorship Khrushchev
65,000 books late 1950s per yr
Stalin’s propoganda
new soviet man + stakhonivte
Khrushchev propoganda filsm
1959 145 films made
cult of personality Stalin
1924 ‘stalin is the lenin of today’ slogans
terror lenin - 1921 krondstat
20,000 sailors w/ 45,000 gov troops in repressed with FORCE
terror Nicholas - lena goldfields
1912 lena goldfields 500 shot
repression - ural siberian
kommosol group to countryside for collectivisation
