Russia 5b - Secret Police and Culture 1917-85 Flashcards
(46 cards)
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
