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Krushcehv Flashcards

1
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Who were the 5 man leadership when Khrushchev took power

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Malenkov
Beria
Molotov
Voroshilov
Krushchev

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By how much did Khrushchev exceed his quotas in the great terror

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6,305 in arrests
3,500 in killed

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What was the period of 1953-1956 called

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Silent de-Stalinisation

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When did Khrushchev propose to put a commission to look into Stalin’s activities

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December 1955

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What was Khrushchev’s reaction to politburo members knowing about Stalin fabricating confessions

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“We’ve got to have the courage to tell the truth”

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What was Mao Zedong’s reaction to de-Stalinisation

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Denounced Khrushchev as a “revisionist”

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7
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What did Moscow university students do in reaction to Khrushchev

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Students boycotted the canteen notorious for its bad food
in a semi intentional enactment of battleship Potemkin

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What was Stalin condemned as

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“Enemy of the people”

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9
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In the three years preceding the secret speech how many political prisoners were rehabilitated

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7,000

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In the three years following the secret speech how many political prisoners were rehabilitated

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617,000

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11
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When was the Hungarian uprising

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October 1956

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12
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What was the Warsaw pact

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A military alliance of East European communist states in 1955

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13
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What did Zhukov become like after the defeat of the anti party group

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Assertive
Big reputation
Big ego

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What did Khrushchev do to Zhukov

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Removed him from his positions in the presidium and central comitee

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15
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What had the unrest in Poland and Hungary been used to argue

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That Khrushchev’s “secret speech” had undermined credibility unity and strength of the international communist movement

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16
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When was Khrushchev outvoted 7 to 4

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June 1957

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17
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Who said in the 22nd party congress that Lenin said in her dream that and said that she didn’t like lying beside Stalin

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77 year old
Lazurkina

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18
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What were the results of the 22nd party congress

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Stalin’s mummified body was removed from the Lenin Mausoleum

Places named after Stalin were renamed
-Stalingrad became Volgograd
-Stalino became Donetsk

Monuments of stalin were destroyed

Khrushchev proposed that a memorial for Stalin’s victims be built in Moscow

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What was the state of Soviet agriculture in 1953

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Productivity was too low

Terms like “Biological yield” for grain harvest were used to hide realities

Livestock numbers were comparatively low to previously and numbers of cows were falling

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What was the Virgin lands campaign

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Huge operation designed to plough up a vast tract of virgin land in Kazakhsatn,Urals and Siberia for grain cultivation

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How many Komsomol volunteers were mobilised to cultivate this area

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More than 300,000 Komsomol volunteers

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By 1956 how many million acres of land was cultivated

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35.9 million acres by 1956

Area equal to size of Canada

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What were conditions like in the virgin lands scheme

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Conditions were primitive and harsh
-ran like a military campaign with an emphasis on speed

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24
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What was the grain harvest in 1956

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125 million tons of grain
-Over half was from the new regions

25
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By 1963 what was the virgin lands scheme harvest like

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Grain harvest was disastrous and Virgin lands scheme produced their smallest scheme for years

26
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What did Khrushchev say about corn

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“Corn can produce high yields in all areas of our country”

“Corn is unequalled by nay other crop”

27
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Out of 85 million acres that were planted how much was harvested ripe

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1/6

28
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What did Krushchev claim regarding the USA

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That the USSR would catch up with the USA in per capita meat output by 1960

29
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When was the 7 year plan

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1959-65

30
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What was there a large investment in the 7 year plan

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Oil and natural gas

31
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When was the first succesful test of an inter continental ballistic missile carried out

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August 1957

32
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What was the first satellite in space called

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Sputnik

33
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Who was the first man in space

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Yuri Gagarin

34
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When did Yuri Gagarin become the first man in space

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1961

35
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Between 1954-55 how many enterprises were transferred from central to republican control

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11,000

36
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In May 1957 how many regional economic councils were established to take place of the central economic ministeries

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105

37
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What did Krushchev prioritise regarding social change

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the “good of the people”

38
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What was the new party programme described as

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remarkable combination of self delusion, wishful thinking and utopianism

39
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What are 3 claims from the new party programme

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A communist society will almost be complete by 1980

By 1970 there will be no housing shortage and the shortage and the Soviet union will have overtaken the USA in per capita production

By the 1980- the real income per head will have increased by more than 250%

40
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Between 1956 and 1965 approximately how many people moved into new apartments

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108 million people moved into new apartments

41
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What was the housing like

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Poor quality but made a real change in peoples lives

42
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In Krushchevs time in power how much did the people in higher education increase by

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Almost trebled

43
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After the editor of the Novy Mir asked party bosses for permission to write a little bit of “truth about the realities in the country

What was the response

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“Literature must stay completely at the service of the party”

44
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In 1956 which novel did Boris Pasternack offer the manuscript of to Novy Mir

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Dr Zhivago

45
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Why was Dr Zhivago rejected

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Felt that novel was against the revolution and that it portrayed the Soviet state in a very negative light

46
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When and where was DR zhivago published

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Italy in 1957 and 1958 and Pasternack was awarded the Nobel prize of literatuure for it

47
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What happened following Zhivago receiving the Nobel prize for literature

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Illegal copies circulated the USSR

the CIA gave out copies to Soviet visitors in the Brussels universal and international exposition in 1958

48
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How many copies of one day in the life of Ivan Denisovich were published in its first 6 months

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1 Million

49
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What was in one day in the life of Ivan Denisovich

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detailed the life of what it was like in the Gulags

50
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What impact did One day in he life of Ivan Denisovich do

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resonated with former inmates, these had never been mentioned before

51
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What was the name of a small Russian town that had an uprising

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Novocherkassk

52
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When was the Novocherkassk uprising

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1st June 1962

53
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What was the result of the Cuban missile crisis

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USA promised to never invade Cuba however this news was secret so Russia was publicly humbled

54
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When was the MTS abolished

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1958

55
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What did Krushchev reduce the size of and what was the result

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restricted size of private plots

Put pressure on peasants to sell their cows to the public

56
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What did Krushchev leave out of the secret speech

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No criticism of Marxism-Leninism

No criticism of Stalin before 1934

Ignores sufferings of non party members before the war

57
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What did Beria do following Stalins death

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Beria rushed to Stalins safe
-feared and disliked by other leader

58
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What was Beria blamed for

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Rising in East Berlin
-Helped Krushchev gain support

59
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What happened to Beria

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Beria denounced in Pravda
Accused of being a British agent for 30 years

Killed secretly after being in custody for 6 months

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