Opposition - Key Facts

Question 1

Russian word for publishing work abroad

Answer 1

Tamizdat

Question 2

Russian word for creating copies individually and often by hand

Answer 2

Samizdat

Question 3

Name of the underground society that produced The Sphinxes

Answer 3

Youth Society of Geniuses

Question 4

Monument of … was unvailed in Moscow in 1958

Answer 4

Vladimir Mayakovsky

Question 5

Name given to the poetry readings by Mayakovsky’s statue

Answer 5

Myak

Question 6

Name of the student that lost his university place as a result of the Myak

Answer 6

Vladimir Bukovksy

Question 7

Russian word for illegal music recordings

Answer 7

Magnitizdat

Question 8

Name of the Ballet dancer that defected to Paris in 1961

Answer 8

Rudolf Nulyev

Question 9

Name of the editor of Syntaxis

Answer 9

Alexander Ginsburg

Question 10

Piece that The Syntaxis was famous for publishing

Answer 10

Solzhenitsyn’s ‘One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich’

Question 11

Number of people identified of living an ‘anti-Soviet’ way of life

Answer 11

130,000

Question 12

Two groups within the Bolshevik Party

Answer 12

• Liberal Reformers
• Hard-line Conservatives

Question 13

Position that Molotov was demoted to

Answer 13

Ambassador of Mongolia

Question 14

Position that Malenkov was demoted to

Answer 14

Director of HEP stations in Kazakhstan

Question 15

Position that Kaganovich was demoted to

Answer 15

Director of Cement Workers

Question 16

Number of political prisoner appeals considered in 1955

Answer 16

250,000

Question 17

Number of political prisoners released in 1955

Answer 17

4%

Question 18

Number of political prisoners rehabilitated in 1956

Answer 18

8 to 9 Million

Question 19

Percentage of the Soviet population that were prisoners by 1957

Answer 19

2%

Question 20

Place where there were violent nationalist demonstrations in 1956

Answer 20

Tblisi, Georgia

Question 21

Honour that Khrushchev won

Answer 21

Hero of the Soviet Union Gold Medal

Question 22

Person that succeeded Khrushchev

Answer 22

Leonid Brezhnev

Question 23

Newspaper that was suppressed during Khrushchev’s fall from power

Answer 23

Izvestra

Question 24

Fraction of the Central Committee that had to be renewed at each election

Answer 24

1/4

Question 25

Name of the two people that met during the Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 25

• Robert Kennedy (USA)
• Anatoly Dobrynin (USSR)

Question 26

Places where the USA agreed to withdraw nuclear weapons

Answer 26

• Italy
• Turkey