Chapter 20- political authority 1945-53 Flashcards
what satellite states had Russia established by 1949
Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Eastern Germany
why did Stalin see the party as unreliable after the war
too many people had been allowed to join during the war
how was the military hierarchy downgraded after the war
stalin took role of Minister of Defence
high-ranking officers sent to inferior posts (Zhukov)
what position did Zhdanov take from Malenkov and how
Party secretary
challenged challenged his policies of moving industrial plants from Germany to Russia
who became Stalins closest advisor
Zhdanov
what did the central committee establish in 1946 that appeared to take power away from Stalin slightly
new politburo, secretariat, ogburo
how many party congresses were held between 1939-52
none (should have been 4)
what was the politburo reduced to in 1946
and advisory body that had too wait on instructions from Stalin
how many members did the party have in 1952
7 million
what was the name of the cultural purge launched in 1946
Zhdanovshchina
what are examples of victims of the zhdanovshchina
Mikhail Zoschenko’s the adventures of a monkey
Anna Akhmatova’s poetry
Boris pastermak’s poetry
Dmitry Shostakovich
what did a law in February 1947 outlaw
marriage to a foreigner
what was the NKVD split into in 1941
MVD- Ministry of Internal Affairs
MGB- Ministry of State Security
how many wartime survivors were sent to labour camps asa result of the Zhdanovshchina
12 million
what was the Leningrad case
false evidence used to arrest and later execute several leading members of the Leningrad party including members such as the leader of the Gosplan and Politburo members such as Voznesensky
what was the rise in anti-semitism due to
Israel being pro-USA
Israeli ambassador for USSR Golda Meir being greeted by cheering jews
what are examples of anti-semitism post war
the director of the Jewish theatre in Moscow Solomon Mikhails being mysteriously killed in a ‘car accident’
the jewish wives of politburo members Molotov and Kalinin being arrested
what was the Mingrelian case
purge in Georgia in 1951 accusing the followers of Lavrenti Beria. thought to have been done out of anti-semitism and to weaken authority of Beria
what was thew doctors plot
Lydia Timashuk alerted Stalin to 9 doctors not handling Zhdanov’s health correctly in 1948
Stalin reopened case in 1951 and said doctors were part of zionist conspiracy to kill soviet leaders and had infiltrated the Leningrad party, MGB and red army
thousands of jews deported many non-jews scared to go into hospitals
9 doctors sentenced to execution
what increased Stalin’s paranoia in 1946
minor stroke
what did a 1948 biography show Stalin as
a modern day Lenin and leading marxist theorist
what were Stalin prizes
Russian version of Nobel prizes
