De-stalinisation

Question 1

1. Name one thing Khrushchev criticised during his Secret Speech at the 1956 20th party congress.
2. What did K end early on in destalinisation?
3. What did K and Malenkov want to focus on?

Answer 1

1. Any from card.
2. Prizes and museums etc celebrating Stalin.
3. The achievements of the CP & Soviet people.

Question 2

1. How many prisoners were released from the gulags in June 1956?
2. What % of those executed by Stalin had been rehabilitated by 1961?
3. How many people remained imprisoned in the gulags?
4. Name an example of the Red Army continuing to violently crush revolutions in the USSR (explain events)? (3)

Answer 2

1. 50,000.
2. 50%
3. 750,000
4. Hungary, 1956 - students rose up and elected a new PM, Khrushchev ordered Soviet troops to crush the revolution after military alliance ended.

Question 3

1. What % of party officials had to be new per election?
2. What did party membership grow by between 1954 and 64?
   - What % were workers and peasants by 1964?
3. What happened to Khrushchev in 1957?
4. How and when was he eventually removed? (2)

Answer 3

1. 25%
2. 7-11 million.
   - 60%
3. Attempted coup.
4. By a party coup in 1964.