Khrushchev Flashcards

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explain how K had two cults of personality

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  • revived lenin’s cult
  • created his own
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how did K revive lenin’s cult of personality

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slogan ‘lenin lives’ and reminded people Gov based on lenin’s rev not stalin’s terror

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what was K’s cult of personality based on

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as lenin’s disciple, a successful statesman with successful policies

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why was K’s cult of personality less successful

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his association with his policies meant when the policies failed he lost support

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when were more than one radio stations allowed

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1964

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what were readers letters

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readers of magazines would write in to the magazine company with information for them to put in the magazine

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why did k encourage readers letters

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to create a consumer society

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what impact did the readers letters have

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exposed economic problems and social ones like domestic violence, alcoholism, lack of consumer goods

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when was the first tv news

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1961

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what was celebrated heavily in media under k

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SU’s win in the space race including role models in factories

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what did k do to the reopened churches in 1958

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shut them all again

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12
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what was k’s approach to religion

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more hardlined

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why did k’s religious campaigns target women

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2/3 orthodox church = women

80% portestants = women

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how did the number of orthodox churches change from 1958 to 1964

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dropped from 8000 to 5000

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what was k’s campaign against nuns based on

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nuns were unnatural since they would never be mothers

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what evidence of anti-religious propaganda is there under k

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he sent yuri gagarin to space to prove there was no god

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17
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what was the name of the cheka 1946-1954

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MGB

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18
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what was the name of the cheka 1954-1991

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KGB

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19
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how much did k use the secret police

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only a little

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20
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why did k not use the secret police much

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favoured ‘popular oversight’

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21
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what is popular oversight

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when ordinary citizens discipline themselves and eachother

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when were the thaws

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53-54
56-57
61-62

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what happened under the first thaw (53-54)

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writing critical of stalin allowed, differences between s and k allowed to be highlighted

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what happened under the first freeze (54)

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some book critical of lenin were banned

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who was ilya ehrenburg
the author of 'the thaw'
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what did ehrenburg write about in 'the thaw;
the great purge, negative aspects of stalinism
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was ehrenburg's 'the thaw' popular
yes 45,000 copies sold in a day
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what were the stilyagi
style hunters = the youth who were interested in western fashion
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what happened under the second thaw (56-57)
the world youth festival was held in moscow, involving jazz music and african drumming
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when was shocktakovich's opera allowed to be played
1962 (having been banned by stalin in 1936)
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when was stalin's body removed from the red square
1961
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was stilyagi an insult
yes it was the authorities calling them rude and ignorant freaks
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what happened during the third thaw
stalins body removed from red square, shostakovich unbanned
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when was western classical music put back on the school curriculum
1957
35
what was popular oversight
a new type of propaganda - poked fun at soviet people
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how was popular oversight used against laziness
'the lazy bureaucrat' published in 1961
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what was 'the lazy bureaucrat'
a fat man at a disorganised desk
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how was popular oversight used against alcoholism
'the alcoholic' 1959
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what was 'the alcoholic'
a drunk man lying in a pool of sick
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what did the thaw of 1953-54 follow
stalins death
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what did the thaw of 1956-57 follow
k's secret speech
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what did the thaw of 1961-62 follow
the 22nd party congress and vote to remove stalin's body from the red square
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in which way did the thaws involve literature
allowed criticism of stalin books
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in which way did the thaws involve music
the World Youth Festival held in 1957
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who wrote dr zhivago
Pasternak
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why did k not like dr zhivago
it was critical of the soviet regime - challenging the rev
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name the freeze associated with dr zhivago
Pasternak was prevented from recieving his noble prize in 1958
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which author did k arrest and when
brodsky in 1964
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why was brodsky arrested in 1964
he refused to submit to gov control (samizdat)
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what art represented popular oversight
posters presented non-conformist citizens as comically fat, lazy, bald
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under k what was each citizen meant to do
keep other citizens under surveillance by intervening with moral advice
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which poster encouraged citizens to help eachother with moral advice
the poster 'when two girls met'
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what is the meaning behind the poster 'when two girls met'
a working class upbringing leads to a disciplined child a privileged upbringing of intellectual parents leads to selfish children
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why was the gov worried about womens behaviour
worried they might become consumerists
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why did the 1957 world youth festival raise concerns about women
concerned they were having sex with men from other countries
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what happened to women found to have had sex with foreing men
heads were shaved
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what welfare policies did the gov introduce
ones that directed women towards marriage and childbearing
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why did the gov introduce welfare policies
a rise in teen pregnancy
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why was the gov concerned with western fashion
believed it was encouraging promiscuity
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why was western fashion being showcased more
increade trade with the west during the 1970s showed western films
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what was the underground samizdat movement
artists who published their work themselves on the black market
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why did the samizdat movement occur
the thaws didn't allow all artists to publish their work through official gov-owned publishing houses
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give an example of a piece of literature that was refused publication in 1954
dr zhivago
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what happened to brodsky
he was sent to a psychiatric institute as punishment
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what were the psychiatric institutes for deviant artists like
- food = cold soup - cold and damp conditions - confined with violent mentally ill people