Khrushchev- Use Of Secret Police 1953-82 (classwork)

Question 1

(Khrushchev allows a certain degree of cultural freedom, but disallows)

Answer 1

(State criticism)

Question 2

What did Khrushchev claim in 1959?

Answer 2

There were no longer any political prisoners, just those of unsound mind.

Question 3

Who began the psychiatric approach?

Answer 3

Khrushchev

Question 4

Khrushchev famously rounded up a group of intelligentsia. When and what did he tell them?

Answer 4

3/1963

“What… you think we have forgotten how to arrest people?”

Question 5

Key criticisms of khrushchev’s liberalisation concept

Answer 5

Still wide use of secret police and politics imprisonment (contrary to Khruschev’s comments, though nowhere near as bad as Stalin’s)

Discreet>Overt Terror: no death/gulag focus, but dissident suppression