Control - Androprovs Supression Of Dissidents Flashcards
1
Q
Terror died down after STalins death but what continued?
A
- surveillance
2
Q
What organisation was in charge of surveillance?
A
KGB
3
Q
Who was head of the KGB after 1967
A
Yuri Andropov
4
Q
What changed about arrests under the KGB?
A
- people were arrested for something, not nothing now
5
Q
Who were the dissidents?
A
Those who criticised the soviet state and system:
- intellectuals
- political dissidents
- nationalists
- religious dissidents
6
Q
Intellectual dissidents
A
- high status encouraged development of independent thinking
- independant political thinkers
- found their ability to work and travel restricted by the government
7
Q
Example of intellectual dissident:
A
- Andrei Sakharov - nuclear scientist
- needed to exchange ideas with foreign colleagues
- wrote to Brezhnev with other leading scientists with their frustrations because exchanging ideas was restricted
- authorities banned him from any further research
8
Q
Political dissidents:
A
- tried to hold govt accountable for its actions and against its own laws
- concerned with human rights abuses- these broke laws and international agreements signed by the USSR like UN DoHR or Helsinki accords
