Political Authority 1941-64 2

Question 1

When is high Stalinism

Answer 1

1945-53

Question 2

What led to high Stalinism

Answer 2

Victory of the war

Economy needed someone to lead its recovery

Question 3

In 1952 what percentage of gulag inmates did not fulfil their labour norms

Answer 3

32%

Question 4

Examples of Stalins paranoia

Answer 4

Meals tested for poison
Travel plans changed at the last minute
Rarely appeared in public

Question 5

Who did Stalin demote as he saw him as a threat

Answer 5

Zhukov

Question 6

What happened in the Leningrad Affair 1949

Answer 6

Beria and Malenkov urged to purge party

Thousands arrested and executed

Question 7

What purge happened in 1951

Answer 7

Mingrelian purge

Question 8

How were Jews persecuted against

Answer 8

Jewish writers and artists were arrested
Synagogues and Jewish schools were closed

Question 9

What happened in the doctors plot

Answer 9

13 doctors accused of killing Zhdanov arrested
Thousands of other doctors arrested
2 died, the rest were let off due to Stalin’s death