EXAM Secret Police Flashcards
What is P1?
Secret Police
What is P2?
Art and culture
What is P3?
Religion
What is the judgement?
Secret Police was significant but not on its own
P1 KGB focus
On surveillance and control of dissidents
P1 dissidents monitored
10,000-20,000 1970s
P1 Psychiatric hospitals
Used to discredit/isolate dissidents
P1 political prisoners by 1970s
10,000
P2 Glavlit
Censored books/film/music/radio
P2 Socialist realism
Remained dominant
P2 Artists and writers who deviated
Banned/exiled/arrested e.g Brodsky
P2 TV channels
Only 2, tightly regulated
P2 Thaw
Khrushchev’s thaw briefly relaxed controls but reversed by Brezhnev
P2 airtime for non-socialist composers
20%
P3 Churches closed
8000 1958 - 5000 1964
P3 clergy
Monitored by KGB, could be imprisoned/harrassed
P3 religious activity
Labelled anti soviet