Prevention and repression

Question 1

What did Andropov change the emphasis of the KGB to?

Why?

Answer 1

prevention
Believed Stalinist repression = ineffective + growing belief in party that socialism = incompatible with widespread repression

Question 2

What policy was adopted in 1972?

Answer 2

policy of issuing official warnings - dissidents would be interviewed and warned and kept under surveillance

Question 3

In the 1970s, how many Soviet citizens received a KGB warning?
How may subversive groups did the KGB estimate this stopped the formation of?

Answer 3

Around 70,000 warnings

Around 2000 groups stopped from forming

Question 4

What happened to dissidents who did not conform after being given a warning?

Answer 4

demoted or sacked from their job
sent to psychiatric institutions
exiled
prison

Question 5

Number of dissidents sent to prison 1965-67?

Number of dissidents sent to prison 1968-70?

Answer 5

1965-67 = 171
1968-70 = 528

Question 6

What did KGB use to intimidate dissidents?

Example?

Answer 6

violence

‘Bulldozer Exhibition’