Russia 5b - Secret Police and Culture 1917-85 Flashcards
When was the Soviet Union of Writers?
1932
When was Yagoda head of the secret police?
1934-36
When was Yezhov head of the secret police?
1936-38
When was Dzerzhinsky head of the secret police?
1917-22
When was Beria head of the secret police?
1938-1953
When was the Leningrad Affair?
1949
When was the Doctors’ Plot?
1952
When was Beria arrested and executed?
1953
When was Dr Zhivago banned?
1954
When was the Sinuavsky-Daniel trial?
1966
When was Prague Spring?
1968
When was Sakharov criticised?
1968
When was Solzhenitsyn exiled?
1973
When was the Helsinki agreement on human rights?
1975
What was Beria’s nickname?
The bloody dwarf
Who was Stalin’s favourite socialist realist artist?
Gerasimov
Who was the commissar for enlightenment?
Lunacharsky
When was Joseph Brodsky’s trial?
1964
How long was Joseph’s Brodksy’s sentance?
He was sentenced for 5 years but released after 2 due to a public outcry
How did Lenin view the Cheka?
As a temporary measure
Who oversaw the Great Terror and the Trial of the 16?
Yagoda
Who accelerated the terror, oversaw the Trial of the 17 and the 21 and purged the Red army?
Yezhov (in Yezhovchina)
Who orchestrated Trotsky’s murder, targeted USSR’s enemies in WWII, interrogated prisoners of war and oversaw post-war terror?
Beria
What was Khrushchev’s policy of popular oversight?
Ordinary citizens disciplined themselves and each others
What was Brezhnev’s approach to control?
Maximum control, minimum terror
What was repressive psychiatry?
Putting opposition in psychiatric institutions to prevent Western criticism
How many potential troublemakers left the USSR in dissident emigration?
100,000
When was the Bulldozer exhibition?
1974
What was growing in the late 1970s-80s?
Social malaise
Who was innovative in film in the 1920s?
Eisenstein and Vertov
Who led Avant-Garde in theatre?
Meyerhold
What was art like in the 1920s?
Avant Garde, futuristic photomontages, vibrant
Which playwright and artist was a prominent figure in the Russian Futurist movement?
Mayakovsky
What was the famous Bolshevik propaganda poster from 1919?
Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge - El Lissitzky
What style of art was popular from 1950-53?
Socialist realism
What is an example of socialist realism art?
Cement by Gladkov
What is an example of the Stalinist Baroque architecture?
Moscow University or Seven Sisters Building
What was the focus of art during WWII?
Patriotism
When was Zhdavnovchina?
1946
What was Zhdavnovchina?
The removal of Western influence in culture
When were Khrushchev’s thaws?
1953-54, 1956-57 and 1961-62
Who did Khrushchev exonerate in one of his thaws?
Solzhenitsyn
When did Khrushchev prevent Pasternak from collecting his Novel Prize?
1958
What did Khrushchev use popular oversight to combat?
Laziness and alcoholism
Who were the Stilyaga?
A small youth culture group who dressed in western style
What was Samizdat?
Copying and distributing banned literature
