Early Secret Police

Question 1

Yagoda 1934

Answer 1

Expansion of Gulag with more economic considerations
Exploiting economic resources if SU in areas where no one would live of own free will
No regular court intervention

Question 2

Yezhov bloody dwarf

Answer 2

Troikas 1937 Karelian Troikas processed 231 prisoners each day
Gulags ‘underused’ July 1937 quotas and medals for executions
Surveillance and plain-clothes police
Number of detectives recruited quadrupled

Question 3

Beria

Answer 3

More conventional methods of police procedure
Evidence
Longer reach- Trotsky Mexico 1940

Question 4

How did Beria change the Gulags?

Answer 4

Made more productive- 1939 food rations increased to get max work out

Question 5

Example if Beria using skills of inmates for specialist tasks

Answer 5

Aviation engineer Korolev played an essential part in development of Soviet space programme

Question 6

How much did the Gulag economic activity grow by 1937-40

Answer 6

2 bil roubles- 4.5 bil

Question 7

Example to show that the Gulag reached its biggest expanse

Answer 7

Over 1/3 of country’s gold and much of its timber& coal produced here

Question 8

What were the secret police in charge of during WW2?

Answer 8

Deportations of national minorities lime Crimean Tartars, Volga Germans and Chechens