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A-Level History > Russia 5b - Secret Police and Culture 1917-85 > Flashcards

Russia 5b - Secret Police and Culture 1917-85 Flashcards

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1
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When was the Soviet Union of Writers?

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1932

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When was Yagoda head of the secret police?

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1934-36

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When was Yezhov head of the secret police?

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1936-38

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When was Dzerzhinsky head of the secret police?

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1917-22

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When was Beria head of the secret police?

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1938-1953

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When was the Leningrad Affair?

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1949

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When was the Doctors’ Plot?

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1952

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8
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When was Beria arrested and executed?

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1953

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9
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When was Dr Zhivago banned?

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1954

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When was the Sinuavsky-Daniel trial?

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1966

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11
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When was Prague Spring?

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1968

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12
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When was Sakharov criticised?

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1968

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13
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When was Solzhenitsyn exiled?

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1973

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When was the Helsinki agreement on human rights?

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1975

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15
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What was Beria’s nickname?

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The bloody dwarf

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16
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Who was Stalin’s favourite socialist realist artist?

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Gerasimov

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17
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Who was the commissar for enlightenment?

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Lunacharsky

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When was Joseph Brodsky’s trial?

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1964

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19
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How long was Joseph’s Brodksy’s sentance?

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He was sentenced for 5 years but released after 2 due to a public outcry

20
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How did Lenin view the Cheka?

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As a temporary measure

21
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Who oversaw the Great Terror and the Trial of the 16?

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Yagoda

22
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Who accelerated the terror, oversaw the Trial of the 17 and the 21 and purged the Red army?

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Yezhov (in Yezhovchina)

23
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Who orchestrated Trotsky’s murder, targeted USSR’s enemies in WWII, interrogated prisoners of war and oversaw post-war terror?

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Beria

24
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What was Khrushchev’s policy of popular oversight?

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Ordinary citizens disciplined themselves and each others

25
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What was Brezhnev’s approach to control?

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Maximum control, minimum terror

26
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What was repressive psychiatry?

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Putting opposition in psychiatric institutions to prevent Western criticism

27
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How many potential troublemakers left the USSR in dissident emigration?

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100,000

28
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When was the Bulldozer exhibition?

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1974

29
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What was growing in the late 1970s-80s?

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Social malaise

30
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Who was innovative in film in the 1920s?

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Eisenstein and Vertov

31
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Who led Avant-Garde in theatre?

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Meyerhold

32
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What was art like in the 1920s?

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Avant Garde, futuristic photomontages, vibrant

33
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Which playwright and artist was a prominent figure in the Russian Futurist movement?

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Mayakovsky

34
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What was the famous Bolshevik propaganda poster from 1919?

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Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge - El Lissitzky

35
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What style of art was popular from 1950-53?

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Socialist realism

36
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What is an example of socialist realism art?

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Cement by Gladkov

37
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What is an example of the Stalinist Baroque architecture?

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Moscow University or Seven Sisters Building

38
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What was the focus of art during WWII?

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Patriotism

39
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When was Zhdavnovchina?

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1946

40
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What was Zhdavnovchina?

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The removal of Western influence in culture

41
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When were Khrushchev’s thaws?

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1953-54, 1956-57 and 1961-62

42
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Who did Khrushchev exonerate in one of his thaws?

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Solzhenitsyn

42
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When did Khrushchev prevent Pasternak from collecting his Novel Prize?

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1958

42
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What did Khrushchev use popular oversight to combat?

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Laziness and alcoholism

43
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Who were the Stilyaga?

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A small youth culture group who dressed in western style

44
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What was Samizdat?

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Copying and distributing banned literature

A-Level History (16 decks)

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