Opposition Outside The Party Flashcards
1
Q
Who was Dissent
A
Intelligentsia/ workers/ working class underground
2
Q
What happened in Ukraine 1962
A
Uprising over food shortages
28 killed
Covered up by putting bodies in existing graves
News black out
3
Q
How many protested against Krushchev
A
Half a million
4
Q
Who was the key cultural dissident
A
Solzhenitsyn
Writer who raised global awareness of repression in USSR and gulags
5
Q
What was the samizadt
A
Underground press
Spread what was really happening in USSR
Worried KGB
6
Q
How was dissidence dealt with
A
Psychiatric hospitals
Social control of intelligentsia
1962 protests less frequent
