Khrushchev - Culture 1953-1964 Flashcards

1
Q

What socialist campaign was revived?

A

Against the church

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2
Q

What was made illegal to teach school children in 1961?

A

Religion

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3
Q

What subject was introduced into the school curriculum?

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Atheism - a course on the ‘foundations of scientific atheism’

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4
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What was there a mass closure of?

A

Seminary schools, orthodox churches, monasteries

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5
Q

What was ‘the Thaw’?

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A relaxation of culture and censorship - a result of destalinisation

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6
Q

What restrictions were lifted?

A
  • foreign radio
  • foreign literature
  • international tourism ‘Intourist’
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7
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What culture was allowed?

A

That denounced Stalin and did not criticise Marxist-Leninism

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8
Q

Which previously denounced cultural artists were pardoned?

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  • Shostakovich
  • Akhmatova
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9
Q

What was published in 1962 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn?

A

One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich

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10
Q

What book was banned?

A

Pasternak’s Dr Zhivago

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11
Q

When was Dr Zhivago published? Where?

A

1957 in Italy

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12
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What happened to Boris Pasternak?

A

Expelled from the Soviet Union of Writers

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13
Q

What does Tamizdat mean?

A

Illegally publishing works abroad

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14
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What does Samizdat mean?

A

Illegally transcribing banned works

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15
Q

Who was there a statue built of in 1958?

A

Mayakovsky

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16
Q

What did the Mayakovsy square spark?

A

Groups of poetry readings

17
Q

What happened to some of the poetry groups in 1961?

A

They were arrested for subversive political activity

18
Q

How many were arrested for living an ‘anti-social’ and parasitic way of life?

A

130,000

19
Q

Where were people sent for subverting politics?

A

Labour camps or mental hospitals

20
Q

What is magnitizdat?

A

Illegal tape recordings of music

21
Q

What did the underground song ‘Moscow Kitchens’ mean?

A

Political subversion occurred in the capital

22
Q

Who defected in Paris, in 1961?

A

Rudolf Nureyev

23
Q

When was the World Youth Festival?

A

1957

24
Q

Where was and how many attended the World Youth Festival?

A

Moscow, 34,000

25
Q

What did the 1961 survey reveal?

A

Majority of young people were sceptical about the October Revolution