Khrushchev Flashcards
What was the collective leadership
Included Molotov, Melonkov, Krushchev, voloshilov, and Beria
In the collective leadership what was the fierce power struggle
They decided to quickly cut down the size of the Presadium down to 10
What was Malenkov position 
He was Prime minister
what was Beria position
Minister of interior and head of secret police
What was Molotov position
He was Foreign minister
What was voroshilov position
Head of state
krushChev position
First party secretary
Why did Chev different from the rest of the collective leadership
He didn’t have a top government role but he was the only member to be part of the Secretariat and pres.
Barrier makes an early running
From Stalin’s death bed ranacked Stalin’s office found evidence of his colleagues Foibles
Why was Barrier Disliked
He was head of the secret police and feared
What was berries reform programme
Amnesty of prisoners
Cultural dissident under Khrushchev cultural thaw
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
Underground network of writers and artists
Florish in underground networks to reproduce and share works which are expressed their political views
Examples of artistes
Grossman
Contents of cultural output
Focused on desire for greater democracy promotion of human rights and rights of ethnic and national minorities
Dr zhivago
Dr zhivago
Which was published in Italy and brought into the USSR aided by the CIA who was hoping to undermine the Communist regime
Samizdat
Printing and copying illegal books , poems and magazines often manually typed up or produced on illegal printing presses
Young society of geniuses
Group of students who produced a journal which published poetry
1958 statue to Vladimir Mayakovsky
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
1961 kgb
13,000 people were identified as leading an antosical parasitic way of life -band from being employed as well as sent to labour camps
Music and ballet
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
Art
Manezh art exhibition, in 1962 and was especially critical of modern Art which he had Felt had no contribution to building a Soviet society
The regimes response to cultural dissidents: Secret police operation
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
The resume had not abandoned its intent to influence the cultural output of the USSR
The hard-liners of Presidiym Able to bring out tighter controls
Khrushchev faced opposition from Within the communist party
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
Anti party group
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 
Anti party- Molotov
demoted to being ambassador of Mongolia
Reorganisation for the economy Under Khrushchev
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
One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich
Personally ordered the publication as he felt he would undermine the hard-liners were more associated with terror and labour camps of the period
How did that how did the hard-liners respond to the publication of one day in the life of Ivan
Be prevented the publication after 1962 and pointed to the danger level of dissidents that Khrushchev thaw had created
How did Khrushchev’s personality undermined support within the party
He was impulsive unpredictable and occasionally explosive and had a habit of insulting colleagues with whom he disagreed
What did the group that disposed Khrushchev in October accuse him of what
Arrogance and harebrained scheming in other words implementing several ideas but not thinking them through sufficiently are planning them properly
United Nations General assembly 1960
Where he banged his shoe on the table which many colleagues felt humiliated the USSR on the international stage
The Cuban missile crisis
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
President Kennedy’s response to the Cuban missile crisis
Responded by placing a naval blockade around Cuba and threatening war if any more missiles were to be delivered
Kennedy and Khrushchev
Deal
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
What did Khrushchev do at the Kennedy threat
Khrushchev backed off and made a deal
Agricultural failures
The failure of the Virgin land scheme and the shortage of grain Soviet union having to import from US and Canada
I was the virgin land scheme humiliation to Khrushchev
 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
Style of leadership and opposition within the military:
One man style of rule
Was accused of not listening to advice and impulsive decision making and harebrained schemes caused opposition to increase
Opposition within the military
Military leaders presented cuts to conventional military spending which had been diverted instead to the USSR’s nuclear weapons program
The USSR’s reliance on nuclear weapons
Was undermined by Cuban missile crisis which Khrushchev’s opponents in the military used against him
Reorganisation of the Bureaucracy.
What did he do to the presidium between 1956 and 61
Replaced over 2/3 of the presidium
1961 reorganisation of the bureaucracy
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
Khrushchev’s policy of the decentralisation
Giving more responsibility to local party Leaders and regional economic councils upset those in central government who had lost some of the authority
Parallel hierarchies
Had divided the party into two parallel hierarchies when responsible for industry I want other for agriculture
October 1964
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 
Khrushchev’s resignation to the public
Announced to the public that he had resigned due to advanced age and ill health
Pradva Fall of Khrushchev
Denounce Khrushchev for his harebrained schemes Half Baked conclusions hasty decisions
Why was Khrushchev not shot
He was not shot but was allowed to retire and claim a pension
What are the four types of opposition under krushchev
Cultural dissidents
Communist divisions
hard-liners and reformers
opponents of Khrushchev
