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Khrushchev Flashcards

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What was the collective leadership

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Included Molotov, Melonkov, Krushchev, voloshilov, and Beria

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In the collective leadership what was the fierce power struggle

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They decided to quickly cut down the size of the Presadium down to 10

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What was Malenkov position 

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He was Prime minister

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what was Beria position

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Minister of interior and head of secret police

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What was Molotov position

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He was Foreign minister

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What was voroshilov position

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Head of state

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krushChev position

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First party secretary

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Why did Chev different from the rest of the collective leadership

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He didn’t have a top government role but he was the only member to be part of the Secretariat and pres.

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Barrier makes an early running

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From Stalin’s death bed ranacked Stalin’s office found evidence of his colleagues Foibles

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Why was Barrier Disliked

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He was head of the secret police and feared

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What was berries reform programme

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Amnesty of prisoners

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Cultural dissident under Khrushchev cultural thaw

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The ability of writers and artist to criticise was eliminated through heavy censorship .The cultural thaw under Khrushchev allowed a new group of cultural dissidents to emerge

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Underground network of writers and artists

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Florish in underground networks to reproduce and share works which are expressed their political views

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Examples of artistes

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Grossman

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Contents of cultural output

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Focused on desire for greater democracy promotion of human rights and rights of ethnic and national minorities

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Dr zhivago

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Dr zhivago
Which was published in Italy and brought into the USSR aided by the CIA who was hoping to undermine the Communist regime

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Samizdat

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Printing and copying illegal books , poems and magazines often manually typed up or produced on illegal printing presses

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Young society of geniuses

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Group of students who produced a journal which published poetry

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1958 statue to Vladimir Mayakovsky

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Commissioned by the government was unveiled in Moscow it was a satirical poet who had criticised the Stalinist Regime. Its sparked number of spontaneous poetry readings which had became slightly more critical of the current Soviet regime

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1961 kgb

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13,000 people were identified as leading an antosical parasitic way of life -band from being employed as well as sent to labour camps

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21
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Music and ballet

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Wanting more access to western music
Rudolph was USSR the most prestigious male ballet he was known to have nonconformist political views and the KGB were against allowing him to talk overseas but in 1961 he was allowed to travel to Paris

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Art

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Manezh art exhibition, in 1962 and was especially critical of modern Art which he had Felt had no contribution to building a Soviet society

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The regimes response to cultural dissidents: Secret police operation

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The extremes of starlins Terror had been reduced there was still thousands of informers working for the KGB actively banned from being employed by the state and were sent to labour camps

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The resume had not abandoned its intent to influence the cultural output of the USSR

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The hard-liners of Presidiym Able to bring out tighter controls

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Khrushchev faced opposition from Within the communist party

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The hard-liners were horrified by Khrushchev secret speech in 1956 which criticised the regime, pointing out the radical criticism of the regime which cruiseship speech has inspired q

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Anti party group

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1957 was coordinated by the hard-line opponants of Krushchev but I was able to support this attempt to remove him by using support from zhukov and red army 

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Anti party- Molotov

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demoted to being ambassador of Mongolia

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Reorganisation for the economy Under Khrushchev

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It was politically motivated byDecentralising control over the economy and giving more power to local regions hoping to undermine State ministries in Moscow who were loyal to the Stalinist hard-liners During the command economy

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One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich

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Personally ordered the publication as he felt he would undermine the hard-liners were more associated with terror and labour camps of the period

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How did that how did the hard-liners respond to the publication of one day in the life of Ivan

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Be prevented the publication after 1962 and pointed to the danger level of dissidents that Khrushchev thaw had created

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How did Khrushchev’s personality undermined support within the party

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He was impulsive unpredictable and occasionally explosive and had a habit of insulting colleagues with whom he disagreed

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What did the group that disposed Khrushchev in October accuse him of what

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Arrogance and harebrained scheming in other words implementing several ideas but not thinking them through sufficiently are planning them properly

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United Nations General assembly 1960

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Where he banged his shoe on the table which many colleagues felt humiliated the USSR on the international stage

34
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The Cuban missile crisis

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Khrushchev intended to use the recent Communist revolution in Cuba to the USSR’s advantage by placing nuclear weapons on the island which was only 90 miles from the US coast

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President Kennedy’s response to the Cuban missile crisis

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Responded by placing a naval blockade around Cuba and threatening war if any more missiles were to be delivered

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Kennedy and Khrushchev
Deal

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Which saw the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba and of American missiles in Turkey however this deal was kept a secret and I was the world it was Kennedy who was seen as victor

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What did Khrushchev do at the Kennedy threat

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Khrushchev backed off and made a deal

38
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Agricultural failures

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The failure of the Virgin land scheme and the shortage of grain Soviet union having to import from US and Canada

39
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I was the virgin land scheme humiliation to Khrushchev

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 are great humiliation for a leader who are promoting himself as an agricultural expert and would claim that virgin LS with solution to the USSR’s food supply problems the 1963
HiHarvest was the poorest

40
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Style of leadership and opposition within the military:
One man style of rule

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Was accused of not listening to advice and impulsive decision making and harebrained schemes caused opposition to increase

41
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Opposition within the military

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Military leaders presented cuts to conventional military spending which had been diverted instead to the USSR’s nuclear weapons program

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The USSR’s reliance on nuclear weapons

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Was undermined by Cuban missile crisis which Khrushchev’s opponents in the military used against him

43
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Reorganisation of the Bureaucracy.

What did he do to the presidium between 1956 and 61

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Replaced over 2/3 of the presidium

44
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1961 reorganisation of the bureaucracy

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Limited to 3 the number of times leading officials could be elected to the same office at each election he also insisted that a quarter of the Central committee and president be replaced

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Khrushchev’s policy of the decentralisation

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Giving more responsibility to local party Leaders and regional economic councils upset those in central government who had lost some of the authority

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Parallel hierarchies

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Had divided the party into two parallel hierarchies when responsible for industry I want other for agriculture

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October 1964

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Khrushchev was on holiday in Georgia when he received a telephone call from Brehznev Summoning him to Moscow for an emergency meeting of the presidential Red Cross chair was attacked on a number of accounts and forced to resign denied access to the media preventing him from raising support 

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Khrushchev’s resignation to the public

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Announced to the public that he had resigned due to advanced age and ill health

49
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Pradva Fall of Khrushchev

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Denounce Khrushchev for his harebrained schemes Half Baked conclusions hasty decisions

50
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Why was Khrushchev not shot

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He was not shot but was allowed to retire and claim a pension

51
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What are the four types of opposition under krushchev

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Cultural dissidents
Communist divisions
hard-liners and reformers
opponents of Khrushchev

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