Polotical Auth Stalin Flashcards
What is high Stalinism
to the period following the end of the war when stalins dictatorship of the USSR reached its pinnacle
all of the aspects of Stalinism which had been present before the war now reached full maturity and influence and influence
Personal dictatorship of Stalin
Exercising total control over the party and the government including senior members of the Politburo
Court of personality under Stalin
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Imposition of cultural uniformity
Helped establish this cult of personality through propaganda a sense of shapes media and artistic expression
Emphasis on Russian nationalism Stalinism
Continued the suppression of national minorities and increase in antisemitic and emphasis on Russian superiority
What does high Stalin ism in Compass
All of the political economic and social aspects of the USSR in the years 1945 to 53
Great patriotic war - reason for Stalin’s consolidation of power
This meant that Stalin could state convincingly that the economic transformation of the 1930s with all the upheaval and suffering that went with it as well as the terror and purges were all justified as without them the USSR would not have survived the war
reason for stalins consolidation of power- war devistated the economy
A new dramatic transformation of the Soviet economy was needed and Stalin had already previously achieved this
Reasons for Stalin’s consolidation of power cold waR
Inccraze nationalism
Continued need for secret police with spies
Able to control and centralise power
Limits to state power under high Stalinism
There was some limits to the centralise control of the USSR in this period this year
size of the country continue to me that ability of political authorities in Moscow to control the regions was not total
regional party bosses continue to build a huge influence of the areas and could ignore certain degrees from central government if they did not fit with the local priorities
in addition the scale and geographical spread of the Gulag system also meant that total control was hard to achieve a
1950 to report revealed that the 32% of good luck in mate did not fulfil the label arms and occasional strikes and results within individual labour camps
Hi Stalin is a membership of the politburo, why did the politburo never meet
The membership of the Politburo in 1945 was almost the same as it had been in 1939 but they rarely met as a full group
because Stalin prefer to deal with people individually on small groups so he knew everything that was going on
and it enabled him to play people off against each other and encourage rivalry
Under high Stalinism what did Stalin do to Molotov’s wife
Stalin was paranoid about threats anywhere
Stalin had the wife of Molotov expelled from the party in December and arrested in 1950 and made no attempt to
To intercede on her behalf
stalin paranoia
His meals were tested for poison he
rarely met in public
and his travel plans were altered
the members of the politburo we’re off to the receiving end of his paranoia when remark to win a month since darling he does not know where he will be sent Next all my jail Stalin
the downfall of zhukov
A Soviet hero of the Second World War
above Anyone else his leadership of the red Army enable the USSR to ultimately defeat the German army
unfortunately his adoration made him made him a potential threat Stalin and
demoted and sent an obscure posting in the Ural Mountains
references to him in the newspapers in accounts of him at the wall deleted you
Is hardly mentioned in official history when Stalin as an architect of victory
when was the leningrad affair
1949
