khrushchev GOVERNMENT Flashcards
when was Khrushchev in power?
1953-64
why did people look down on Khrushchev?
had no formal education and a peasant upbringing. He used to rear cattle
- “lacked intellect”
how did Khrushchev come to power?
was an accomplice to Stalin - was ‘catapulted’ through the ranks by Stalin
why did he emerge the war a hero and what was the consequence?
he defended Stalingrad - promoted to PM of the Ukraine
what was he ordered to shut down
Ukrainian uprising - 90,000 soviet soldier killed
who did Khrushchev replace in the seat of honour in the Presidium?
Malenkov in 1954
when was Beria tried and executed?
1953
why was Malenkov demoted?
accused of involvement in atrocities - replaced by Bulganin - 1955
what is the secret speech?
Khrushchev denounces Stalin’s purges and cult of personality - 1956
when was the attempted coup to remove Khrushchev and who by?
1957 - an Anti-Party group
when was the Virgin Land scheme issued?
1954
when were Malenkov, Molotov and Kaganovic removed?
1957
who did Khrushchev replace to become PM?
Bulganin - 1958
when was the 7 year plan introduced?
1959
when was Stalin removed from Lenin’s mausoleum?
1961
what did Khrushchev divide the party into?
1962 - parallel hierarchies for agriculture and industry
when was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
1962
when did the Virgin Land scheme start failing?
1963
when was Khrushchev deposed?
1964
how did Khrushchev reform the Government?
- 105 regional councils
- devolves power regionally
- splits Gosplan into Agricultural and Industrial planning
what was Khrushchev’s cultural thaw?
1950’s - 60’s where many books and other art forms were uncensored - ‘Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovic’
what book did Khrushchev denounce and ban?
Dr Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
what did Khrushchev do to improve housing?
manufactured prefabricated houses - Khrushchovka - 394 million apartments built by 1961
what was the Cuban middle crisis?
Russia secretly supplied newly Communist country Cuba with nuclear missiles
what did Khrushchev do under Stalin?
had 62,000 arrested/ killed and shared responsibility for the people starved in collectivisation - “the butcher of Ukraine”
who was Yuri Gagarin?
the first man sent to space - under Khrushchev
what happened at the 20th party conference?
Khrushchev starts his ‘De-Stalinisation’ programme - 1956
who tried to remove Khrushchev with the anti-party campaign?
Bulganin - 1957
Marshall Zhucko flew in all K’s supporters to vote for him
what happened to Malenkov, Molotov, Kaganovic and Bulganin?
they were demoted and exiled
- they could not be executed as the USSR was still a police state
