High stalinism Flashcards
Who purged the party in the 1948 Leningrad affair
Beria and Malenkov
What was Stalin’s opinion on the 1948 Leningrad Affair
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
What was the NKVD renamed to in 1946
1946 MVD
What was the Mingrelian purge
Purge carried out in 1951 by Beria who was Mingrelian himself
Who was Polina Molotova
Wife of Molotov
Jew
Close friend of Stalin’s wife
What did Stalin order Polina Molotova to do
Divorce despite being devoted to each other
What did Molotov do following his abstaining of vote in expelling his wife from the party
Wrote a letter of apology in 1949 for abstaining from the vote
What happened the day after Molotov’s letter of apology regarding his wife
Polina was arrested
In January 1953 what did Pravda announce regarding the doctors plot
Announced that 13 doctors including Stalins personal physician had conspired with the US to kill Zhdanov and other officials
How were confessions obtained in the doctors plot
Confessions obtained Under torture
2 Doctors died
What happened to Stalin before the doctors execution in the doctors plot
Stalin died
What happened regarding the doctors plot after Stalin’s death
Declared a fabrication and MVD officers were executed
What title was Stalin given following his victory over the Germans
“Generalissimo”
How was Stalin presented in High Stalinism
almost Godlike
What was Laventry Beria like
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
When was Beria appointed head of the NKVD
1938
Who was Lysenko
Biologist who claimed that heritable changes in plants could be achieved by environmental changes
What was a positive regarding science
Soviet scientists developed the atomic bomb in only a little more time than the americans
What was the drive for ideological and cultural purity called
zhdanovshchina
How was theatre/entertainment affected
Theatres were attacked for staging too many western plays
How did Stalin intervene with one of Eisensteins plays
In Eisenstein’s play about Ivan the terrible he urged hum to show how it was necessary to be ruthless
What is an example of writers being able to have more success
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
How long was Stalin’s 70th Birthday celebrated for
Almost a year
What was the majority of the Bolshevik party made up of
Members under the age of 45
During the second world war by how much had the party grown
4-6 Million
