Repression- Secret police under the Communists Flashcards

1
Q

When was the Cheka established?

A

1917

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2
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Who headed the Cheka?

A

A polish communist Dzerzhinsky.

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3
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What was the specific role of the Cheka?

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To deal with Counter-revolutionaries. (specifically left wing SR’s after their assassination attempt) on Lenin.

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4
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Who did the Cheka tend to victimise?

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-people for who they are rather than actions.

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5
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What was the red terror implemented by Trotsky during the time of the Cheka?

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-enforcement of war communism
-targeting Kulaks.
-labour code
-Labour camps.

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6
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When was the Cheka disbanded?

A

After the civil war

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7
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What was the Cheka replaced with?

A

The state police administration GPU and then later the OGPU (still as awful as the Cheka).

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8
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When was the NKVD formed?

A

1934.

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9
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Who headed the NKVD?

A

Yagoda.

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10
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What were the roles of the NKVD?

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-permeant form of terror.
-purges
-gathering evidence against high ranking communists.

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11
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Who was a high ranking communist that the NKVD targeted?

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-Trotsky

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12
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What was Gulag and how many people were held there during the Stalinist regime? (under the NKVD)

A

-Prison camps
-40 Million

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13
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Why was the NKVD replaced?

A

-suspected conspiracy
-such as Yezhov suspected anti-purge campaigns in 1938.

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14
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Who was Yezcov replaced with (NKVD)

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Beria- who subsequently arranged Yezcov’s execution.

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15
Q

How many people in the NKVD itself had been purged by WW1?

A

20,000.

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16
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When was the NKVD replaced by the NKGB?

A

1946.

17
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What was the NKBG split into? (1946)

A

-MGB
-MVD

18
Q

What was the MGB responsible for? (1946)

A

-Ensuring the general population was kept in line.

19
Q

What was the MVD responsible for (1946)

A

Another version of the NKVD

20
Q

What eventually happened to the two branches of NKBG (MVD and MGB)

A

Just continued as the MVD.

21
Q

Who ordered Beria’s execution?

A

Khrushchev

22
Q

How was the MVD reorganised?

A

split into 2
-MVD and KGB.

23
Q

What was the MVD responsible for under Khrushchev?

A

-‘ordinary criminal acts and civil disorder’

24
Q

What did the KGB do under Khruschev?

A

-internal and external security during the cold war

25
Q

Who were the MVD and the KGB controlled by under Khrushchev?

A

-The party rather than an individual.

26
Q

Under Khrushchev’s secret police?

A

-political arrests decrease
-Gulags largely disappeared

27
Q

How many counterrevolutionaries in captivity during the 1960s?

A

-11,000