khrushchev GOVERNMENT

Question 1

when was Khrushchev in power?

Answer 1

1953-64

Question 2

why did people look down on Khrushchev?

Answer 2

had no formal education and a peasant upbringing. He used to rear cattle
- “lacked intellect”

Question 3

how did Khrushchev come to power?

Answer 3

was an accomplice to Stalin - was ‘catapulted’ through the ranks by Stalin

Question 4

why did he emerge the war a hero and what was the consequence?

Answer 4

he defended Stalingrad - promoted to PM of the Ukraine

Question 5

what was he ordered to shut down

Answer 5

Ukrainian uprising - 90,000 soviet soldier killed

Question 6

who did Khrushchev replace in the seat of honour in the Presidium?

Answer 6

Malenkov in 1954

Question 7

when was Beria tried and executed?

Answer 7

1953

Question 8

why was Malenkov demoted?

Answer 8

accused of involvement in atrocities - replaced by Bulganin - 1955

Question 9

what is the secret speech?

Answer 9

Khrushchev denounces Stalin’s purges and cult of personality - 1956

Question 10

when was the attempted coup to remove Khrushchev and who by?

Answer 10

1957 - an Anti-Party group

Question 11

when was the Virgin Land scheme issued?

Answer 11

1954

Question 12

when were Malenkov, Molotov and Kaganovic removed?

Answer 12

1957

Question 13

who did Khrushchev replace to become PM?

Answer 13

Bulganin - 1958

Question 14

when was the 7 year plan introduced?

Answer 14

1959

Question 15

when was Stalin removed from Lenin’s mausoleum?

Answer 15

1961

Question 16

what did Khrushchev divide the party into?

Answer 16

1962 - parallel hierarchies for agriculture and industry

Question 17

when was the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Answer 17

1962

Question 18

when did the Virgin Land scheme start failing?

Answer 18

1963

Question 19

when was Khrushchev deposed?

Answer 19

1964

Question 20

how did Khrushchev reform the Government?

Answer 20

• 105 regional councils
• devolves power regionally
• splits Gosplan into Agricultural and Industrial planning

Question 21

what was Khrushchev’s cultural thaw?

Answer 21

1950’s - 60’s where many books and other art forms were uncensored - ‘Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovic’

Question 22

what book did Khrushchev denounce and ban?

Answer 22

Dr Zhivago - Boris Pasternak

Question 23

what did Khrushchev do to improve housing?

Answer 23

manufactured prefabricated houses - Khrushchovka - 22 million apartments built

Question 24

what was the Cuban middle crisis?

Answer 24

Russia secretly supplied newly Communist country Cuba with nuclear missiles

Question 25

what did Khrushchev do under Stalin?

Answer 25

had 62,000 arrested/ killed and shared responsibility for the people starved in collectivisation - “the butcher of Ukraine”

Question 26

who was Yuri Gagarin?

Answer 26

the first man sent to space - under Khrushchev

Question 27

what happened at the 20th party conference?

Answer 27

Khrushchev starts his ‘De-Stalinisation’ programme - 1956

Question 28

who tried to remove Khrushchev with the anti-party campaign?

Answer 28

Bulganin - 1957
Marshall Zhucko flew in all K’s supporters to vote for him

Question 29

what happened to Malenkov, Molotov, Kaganovic and Bulganin?

Answer 29

they were demoted and exiled
- they could not be executed as the USSR was still a police state