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Chapter 4: Impact Of The Great Terror Flashcards

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What were the impacts of the show trials?

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Provided Stalin’s opponents were corrupt

Bukharin, Kamenev, Zinoviev

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What was the political impact of the terror?

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Divert attention away from problems
Give drama autonomy and remove blame
Stalin encouraged the ‘little people’ to hold their bosses to account

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How many party members sacked in Leningrad?

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Greater than 1,000

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How many party members in Leningrad were arrested?

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200 arrested and charged with being traitors - Confessions extracted using the conveyor belt system

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How were Jews viewed?

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Potential spy and traitor, as they were more loyal to Jews than Russia. Purge against any ‘cosmopolitan’ Russian

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What was the percentage decrease in Jewish senior managers from 1945 to 1951?

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12% to 4%

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During what years were the Jewish senior managers fall from 12% to 4%?

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1945 to 1951

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How many people did Yagoda’s NKVD convict between 1935-36?

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Half a million

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During what period had Yagoda’s NKVD convicted half a million people?

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1935-36

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How many were shot by Yagoda’s NKVD between 1935-36?

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2,300 people

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How many people were sent to the Gulag by Yagoda’s NKVD between 1935-36?

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405,000

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How many officers were shot by Yagoda’s NKVD between 1935-36?

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35,000

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During what period had Yagoda’s NKVD shot 2,300 people?

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1935-36

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During what period had Yagoda’s NKVD send 405,000 people to the Gulag?

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1935-36

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During what period had Yagoda’s NKVD shot 35,000 army officers?

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1935-36

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During what period had Yagoda’s NKVD killed 23,000 NKVS agents?

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1935-36

17
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How many NKVD agents were killed by Yagoda’s NKVD between 1935-36?

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23,000

18
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When was Yeszhovs blood bath?

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1937-38

19
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What happened between 1937-38?

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Yezhov blood bath

20
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What percentage of adult males were executed or sent to labour camps?

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10%

21
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What happened to 10% of the adult male population?

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Sent to labour camps or executed

22
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What kinds of males were targeted?

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Urban and educated population. Also, males aged 30-45 and in professional positions

23
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How many were arrested at the height of the terror?

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1.5 million

24
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At the height of the terror, how many were exiled?

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635,000 exiled

25
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How many were shot at the height of the terror?

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680,000

26
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What was the impact of the 1945 Yalta Conference?

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Prisoners of war returned home

27
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When allowed prisoners of war returned home?

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1945: Yalta Conference

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What happened to the 1.5 million soldiers, former prisoners of war, who returned home?

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Interrogated and exiled and guilty for disobeying Stalin’s direct order not to allow themselves to be captured ‘breach of discipline’. Punished them to years of hard labour

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What happened to members of trade unions?

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Many accused of being enemies of the state

30
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What happened in 1937?

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Party was purged

31
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What happened in the Yaroslav trial?

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Rubber factory accused management of malpractice and therefore led to a show trial. They accused bosses of being ‘wrekcers’

32
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What would happen to the wives of top party officials when they were arrested?

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They were arrested as well and lost their jobs

33
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Where did many wives queue?

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To find out information about their husbands

34
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What happened to children?

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Expelled from uni
Humiliated
Renounce parents especially in the Komsomol

35
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What was the economic impact?

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Eliminated the experienced economic planners and wiped away industrial managers

36
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What did Alec Nove say about the purges?

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‘Swept away technicians, statisticians and planners leading to a shortage of workers’

37
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What happened to coal production between 1936-40?

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It didn’t grow

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