High stalinism

Question 1

Who purged the party in the 1948 Leningrad affair

Answer 1

Beria and Malenkov

Question 2

What was Stalin’s opinion on the 1948 Leningrad Affair

Answer 2

Stalin was happy to see the purge take place
Thought Leningrad Bolsheviks were becoming too confident
Wanted to make all members of the politburo insecure about their positions

Question 3

What was the NKVD renamed to in 1946

Answer 3

1946 MVD

Question 4

What was the Mingrelian purge

Answer 4

Purge carried out in 1951 by Beria who was Mingrelian himself

Question 5

Who was Polina Molotova

Answer 5

Wife of Molotov
Jew
Close friend of Stalin’s wife

Question 6

What did Stalin order Polina Molotova to do

Answer 6

Divorce despite being devoted to each other

Question 7

What did Molotov do following his abstaining of vote in expelling his wife from the party

Answer 7

Wrote a letter of apology in 1949 for abstaining from the vote

Question 8

What happened the day after Molotov’s letter of apology regarding his wife

Answer 8

Polina was arrested

Question 9

In January 1953 what did Pravda announce regarding the doctors plot

Answer 9

Announced that 13 doctors including Stalins personal physician had conspired with the US to kill Zhdanov and other officials

Question 10

How were confessions obtained in the doctors plot

Answer 10

Confessions obtained Under torture
2 Doctors died

Question 11

What happened to Stalin before the doctors execution in the doctors plot

Answer 11

Stalin died

Question 12

What happened regarding the doctors plot after Stalin’s death

Answer 12

Declared a fabrication and MVD officers were executed

Question 13

What title was Stalin given following his victory over the Germans

Answer 13

“Generalissimo”

Question 14

How was Stalin presented in High Stalinism

Answer 14

almost Godlike

Question 15

What was Laventry Beria like

Answer 15

Very intelligent
Brutal
Hated by colleagues
Main interests were power ,terror and sex
He raped women, Stalin even told his then teenage daughter to leave Beria’s house

Question 16

When was Beria appointed head of the NKVD

Answer 16

1938

Question 17

Who was Lysenko

Answer 17

Biologist who claimed that heritable changes in plants could be achieved by environmental changes

Question 18

What was a positive regarding science

Answer 18

Soviet scientists developed the atomic bomb in only a little more time than the americans

Question 19

What was the drive for ideological and cultural purity called

Answer 19

zhdanovshchina

Question 20

How was theatre/entertainment affected

Answer 20

Theatres were attacked for staging too many western plays

Question 21

How did Stalin intervene with one of Eisensteins plays

Answer 21

In Eisenstein’s play about Ivan the terrible he urged hum to show how it was necessary to be ruthless

Question 22

What is an example of writers being able to have more success

Answer 22

The poet Anna Akhmatova whom was previously silenced in the 1930s was now treated with honour for the first time and allowed to publish
Shostakovich was publicly attacked in 1936 yet now celebrated

Question 23

How long was Stalin’s 70th Birthday celebrated for

Answer 23

Almost a year

Question 24

What was the majority of the Bolshevik party made up of

Answer 24

Members under the age of 45

Question 25

During the second world war by how much had the party grown

Answer 25

4-6 Million