Control Flashcards
Decree on Press
L, Nov 1917
State Monopoly of Advertising
L, Nov 1917
Nationalising Petrograd Telegraph Agency
L, Nov 1917
Cheka established
L, Dec 1917
Revolutionary Tribunal of the Press
L, Jan 1918
Decree on the Seperation of Church and State
L, Jan 1918
Photo of Lenin, the beginning of the cult of personality
L, Aug 1918
Secret order for the mass extinction of priests
L, Nov 1918
All Russian Telegraph Agency established
L, Sep 1918
Start of the Proletarian Culture Movement
L, 1920
Start of Avant Garde
L, 1920
First radio broadcast
L, 1921
2000 newspapers and 575 printing presses closed
L, 1921
Book gulags
L, 1921
Union of the Militant Godless
L, 1921
Agitprop
L, 1921
Glavlit
L, 1922
Cheka renamed GPU
L, 1922
GPU renamed OGPU
L, 1922
Petrograd renamed Leningrad
L, 1924
Cult = modest image
S, 1924
Tsaritsyn renamed Stalingrad
S, 1925
30,000 Orthodox churches
S, 1927
National womens day - women casted their veils off
S, 1927
Glavlit controlled access to economic data
S, 1928
Cult - faifthful pupil of Lenin
S, 1929
closure of churches with collectivisation
S, 1929
Socialist Realism
S, 1930
Vozhd
S, 1932
Union of Soviet Writers
S, 1932
Athiest 5 year plan
S, 1932
Cult fully established - omnipotence
S, 1933
Yagoda leader of the Secret Police
S, 1934
OGPU renamed NKVD
S, 1934
Yezhov leader of the Secret Police
S, 1936
Purges of clergy members
S, 1936
231 imprisoned a day
S, Sep 1937
Meyerbold’s ‘How the Steal was Tempered’
S, 1937
Beria leader of the secret police
S, 1938
500 Orthodox churches left
S, 1940
NKVD renamed the NKGB
S, 1941
Mass deportation of the Kalmyks
S, 1942
414 churches reopened
S, 1945
Cult - god like
S, 1945
Hagiography
S, 1945
NKGB renamed MGB
S, 1946
Leningrad Affair
S, 1949
Consumer magazines
S, 1950s
Doctor’s Plot
S, 1952
Arrest and Execution of Beria
S, 1953
Thaw - critical novels of Stalin allowed
K, 1953
Freeze - books critical of Lenin banned
K, 1953
Dr Zhivago banned
K, 1954
MGB renamed KGB
K, 1954
Popular oversight
K, 1954
Thaw - more liberalisation and critical stories of Stalin
K, 1956
World Youth Festival in Moscow
K, 1957
Thaw - classical music from West put back on the curriculum
K, 1957
closed all churches that had been reopened in the War
K, 1958
800 orthodox churches
K, 1958
cult - disciple of Lenin, WW2 hero, great reformer
K, 1958
refused to allow Pasternak to collect Nobel Prize
K, 1958
‘The alcoholic’ Art
K, 1959
‘The Lazy Bureaucrat’ Art
K, 1961
Stalin’s body removed from the Red Square
K, 1961
First TV News
K, 1961
Shostakoviah’s opera performed again in theatre
K, 1962
Brodsky tried, got 5 years in prison
K, 1964
leadership cult to consolidate position
B, 1964
report = 1292 anti soviet writers
B, 1965
Sinuavsky-Daniel Trial
B, 1966
Andropov leader of the Secret Police
B, 1967
Directorate V
B, 1967
171 dissidents imprisoned
B, 1967
Prague Spring
B, 1968
Sakharov criticism
B, 1968
Institute for Scientific Athiesm opened
B, 1965
528 dissident imprisoned
B, 1970
7000-8000 low profile dissidents
B, 1970s
‘Moscow Conceptulists’ Art and Leningrad Underground Art
B, 1970s
Solzhenitsy exiled
B, 1973
Bulldozer Exhibition
B, 1974
Helsiniki Agreement
B, 1975
Only 25% people believed in God
A, 1980s
450 West magazines on black market
C, 1985