1.3 The Secret Police Flashcards
When was the Cheka established?
1917
How many people were shots by the Cheka 1921-22?
200,000
When did the GPU replace the Cheka?
1922
When did the OGPU replace the GPU?
1923
When did the NKVD replace the OGPU?
1934
When did Yagoda become head of the secret police?
1934
When was Yagoda shot?
1938
When did Yezhov replace Yagoda?
1936
How many prisoners did the courts process every day in 1937?
231
When was Yezhov dismissed?
1938
Growth in economic activity from Gulags under Beria
2 mil roubles in 1937 - 4.5 mil roubles in 1940
How many polish officers did the Red Army kill in 1943?
4000
Name of the order that treated all troops who surrendered to the Germans as traitors?
Order 270
How many members of the Leningrad branch were imprisoned/exiled in 1949?
2000
When was the Mingrelian Affair?
1951
When was Beria removed?
1953
When did the LGB replace the NKVD?
1954
Who were dissidents?
Intellectuals
Political dissidents
Nationalists
Religious dissidents
When was the UN Declaration on Human Rights signed?
1948
When were the Helinski Accords?
1975
How many nationalists did the police arrest for a fire at the Academy of Science in Kiev?
20
How many political prisoners were there by the mid 70s?
10,000
What did the new criminal code of 1960 abolish?
Night time interrogations
When did Andropov visit a Moscow Factory?
1983
