Downfall

Question 1

What key factors caused Krushchevs downfall

Answer 1

1. Personality
2. Cuban missile crisis
3. Agricultural failures
4. Effects or reorganisations
5. Economy & society

Question 2

When did Krushchev die and what was he denied

Answer 2

1971
Denied state funeral

Question 3

What was Krushchevs personality like

Answer 3

Arrogant
Insulted colleagues
“Scheming”

Question 4

When was the Cuban missile crisis

Answer 4

1962

Question 5

What happend in Cuba

Answer 5

Krushchev placed missiles
JFK/ USA intelligence placed naval blockade
Brink of nuclear war
Withdrew
Presidium blamed Krushchev

Question 6

What agricultural failures were there in 1963

Answer 6

Dry summer- grain 70 tonnes less of target
Bought grain from west- humiliated

Question 7

What were the effects of reorganisation

Answer 7

Replaced 2/3 of council/ presidium
Divided party between agricultural and industrial responsibility

Question 8

What economic issues were there by 1964

Answer 8

Output and workers pay low
Only space tech up to international standards
Stated 20 years of stagnation
USSR collapsed following Gorbachev reforms

Question 9

Society by 1964

Answer 9

Women 55% of population- burdened
Not enough in higher education

Question 10

Who took over after Krushchev

Answer 10

Berzhenev

Question 11

Dr Hornsby quote

Answer 11

“Krushchev made it so berzhenev couldn’t return Russia to the brutality of Stalinism”