Andropov's Aims & Methods

Question 1

1. What was the policy of increased surveillance and action against dissidents Andropov set out called?
   - When was this policy made?
2. After the trials of well-known artists from 1964-66, Andropov decided to deal with dissidents in a more ______ way which would avoid adverse _________.

Answer 1

1. KGB Order No. 0051.
   - 1968.
2. Subtle, publicity.

Question 2

1. What were KGB agents not allowed to accept?
2. What were they forced to declare?
3. What happened to KGB agents whose relatives broke the law?
4. What were KGB agents promoted on the basis of?
5. What did ‘Directorate V’ specifically deal with?
   - What year was it established?

Answer 2

1. Gifts.
2. Financial assets.
3. Sacked.
4. Their success in dealing with dissidents.
5. Dissidents.
   - 1967.

Question 3

1. What were Andropov’s 2 main ways of dealing with identified dissidents?
2. How many potential ‘troublemakers’ were allowed to leave the USSR while Andropov was head of the KGB.
   - What was this policy related to?

Answer 3

1. Emigration & Repressive Psychiatry.
2. Over 100,000.
   - Jewish Emigration.

Question 4

1. Who was repressive psychiatry used more against?
2. When was this policy proposed?
   - It was endorsed by the Council of Ministers in a what?
3. What 2 groups of people was this used against?

Answer 4

1. Less well-known dissidents.
2. April 1969.
   - Secret Resolution.
3. Protestant Christians and Jehovah’s Witnesses.