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RUSSIA Control of the People, 1917-85 Flashcards

1
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When was a decree issued banning all non-socialist newspapers?

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November 1917

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When were all non-Bolshevik newspapers eliminated?

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By early 1920s

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What were all newspaper editors and journalists?

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Employees of the government; members of the Union of Soviet Journalists; expected to be Party members

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What was the censorship office called?

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Glavlit

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What was needed for every newspaper article written for publication?

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Approval from Glavlit

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What are examples of daily newspapers published?

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Pravda (truth); Izvestiya (News)

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Pravda

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Newspaper of the Communist Party

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Izvestiya

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Newspaper of the government

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What was the purpose of both Pravda and Izvestiya?

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Instruments of propaganda, agitation and organisation

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10
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What was the guiding principle of the Soviet press?

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Partiinost (party-mindedness)

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How was a high readership ensured of the daily newspapers?

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Cheap to buy; widely available; copies posted on boards along pavements and at workplaces

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12
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What was Pravda’s circulation in 1983?

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10.7 million

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13
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Which paper was even more popular than Pravda?

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Trud (labour)

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14
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What were favoured topics of the newspapers?

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Achievements of socialism; successful expeditions to the Arctic and northern Russia; triumph of technology over nature

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15
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What were the topics that were prohibited/subject to delayed reporting in the newspapers?

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Plane crashes; natural disasters

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16
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Which newspapers were likely to publish views critical of the authorities?

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Local newspapers

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17
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What were the limits put on the criticism published by local newspapers?

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Criticising party leaders wasn’t allowed

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18
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What else were published alongside daily Soviet newspapers to cater for an ever-increasing range of interests?

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Vast selection of magazines and journals

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19
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What were many of the magazines and journals aimed at?

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Specific groups of workers; young children; sports fans; those with a particular hobby

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20
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Which areas of interest were off-limits in magazines and journals?

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Sex; pornography; crime; religion

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21
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When was ‘Red Sport’ established?

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1924

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22
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Which magazine succeeded ‘Red Sport’?

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‘Sovetskii Sport’

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23
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Which aspect of the media was relatively easy for the Bolsheviks to control in 1917?

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Radio

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Why was radio relatively easy for the Bolsheviks to control in 1917?

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Fairly recent development; didn’t have a long tradition of independent activity

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25
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How had radio broadcast news of the Revolution in October 1917?

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Morse code

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26
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When did radio programmes begin being broadcast in Russia?

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1921

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27
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Spoken Newspaper of the Russian Telegraph Agency

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Featured news and propaganda material, with little emphasis on music

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How did the Bolsheviks get their message to the Soviet people over radio?

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Installed loudspeakers in public places, factories and clubs

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29
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How was control of radio communications centralised?

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Through the Commissariat for Posts and Telegraph

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30
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When did Moscow have a well-developed radio broadcasting station?

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1922

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31
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Why was radio an especially useful medium?

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Enabled the government to get its message across to the 65% of the population who were illiterate

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32
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How did the government convey its message through radio by the 1920s to make it more palatable?

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Alongside light or classical music

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33
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When did the speed by which the government could convey its message through the radio prove invaluable?

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During the German invasion of 1941

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34
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How was radio access restricted to government stations only?

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Most new apartment blocks were wired for radio reception

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35
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Until when was there only one Soviet radio station?

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1964

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36
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What was the radio range extended to under Brezhnev?

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3 stations

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37
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How did the government restrict access to foreign radio stations?

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Mass-produced cheap radios with a limited reception range; jammed foreign broadcasts; threatened to arrest those that listened to foreign stations

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38
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How successful were the government’s restrictions on foreign radio broadcasts?

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Threats rarely succeeded

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39
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When was television becoming a key method by which the government got its message to the Soviet public?

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By the 1950s

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40
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How many television sets did the USSR have in 1950?

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10,000

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41
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How many television sets did the USSR have in 1958?

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Almost 3 million

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42
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What brought television within the price range of most people?

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Mass production in the 1960s

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43
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When did most of the population have access to a television?

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By the early 1980s

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44
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What did the government television stations provide?

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News; documentaries on the achievements of socialism; cultural programmes; children’s programmes; feature films

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45
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How was life in the Soviet Union presented on television?

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Joyous compared to capitalism

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46
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How many television channels were there in 1985?

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2

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47
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Edward Khil (Trololo)

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Soviet singer, who became popular in the 1970s

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48
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What are more positive features of Soviet television output?

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Broadcast of local programming for the regions in the USSR, often in local languages; folk dancing made a change from the usual imposition of Russian culture on national minorities

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49
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What did the Soviet people learn to do as a result of the heavy censorship and restriction of material?

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Got used to reading between the lines

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What were indications in the press that someone had fallen from favour within the Party?

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News of the heart problems of a member of the Politburo; someone’s continued non-appearance in the press

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51
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What did favoured and rising stars of the Party receive in the press?

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More news space

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52
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What was threatening the government’s restriction of information to the population in the 1980s?

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Advancing technology

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53
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What did the Bolsheviks see religion as?

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Threat to the imposition of socialist ideology

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54
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Which religious figures did Lenin have a particular hatred for?

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Priests

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55
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Why did the Bolsheviks attack the Russian Orthodox Church so fiercely?

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It had been tied closely to the old order

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56
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What was religion referred to as, using Marx’s words?

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‘Opium of the masses’

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What separated the Orthodox Church from the state and lost it its privileged status?

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1918 Decree on Freedom of Conscience

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58
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What happened to the Church as a result of the 1918 Decree on Freedom of Conscience?

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Deprived of its land without compensation; its publications were outlawed; all religious education outside the home was banned

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59
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Who had been the head of the Orthodox Church in 1918?

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Patriarch Tikhon

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60
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When did the attacks on the Church increase?

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During the famine of the civil war

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61
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By 1923, how many bishops had been killed?

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28

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62
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By 1923, how many priests had been killed?

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Over 1000

63
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What was established by the Bolsheviks as part of a propaganda campaign against religion?

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League of the Militant Godless in 1929

64
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What did the League of the Militant Godless do?

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Launched events to disprove the existence of God

65
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What did a campaign suggest baptisms should be replaced with?

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‘Octoberings’

66
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When did Patriarch Tikhon die?

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1925

67
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What did Patriarch Tikhon’s death open the way for?

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Metropolitan Sergei of Moscow to call on Church members to support the government

68
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How many of all village churches had been destroyed/weren’t operating by the end of 1930?

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4/5

69
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How much of the peasantry were revealed to still be active Christians after surveys in the mid-1920s?

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55%

70
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What was the print run of Trud?

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13.5 million

71
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What was Trud?

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Newspaper of the government-controlled trade unions

72
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When did the newspapers focus particularly heavily on production figures?

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1930s

73
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When did ‘Sovietskii Sport’ replace ‘Red Sport’?

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1946

74
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Which radio station played foreign music and was popular with the Soviet youth?

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Radio Maiak (Lighthouse)

75
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What was the shortcoming of the mass production of televisions in the 1960s?

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Availability failed to keep pace with demand

76
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What feature of Stalin’s rule led Trotsky to accuse him of betraying the revolution?

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Stalin’s cult of personality

77
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Why was a cult of personality used?

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To reinforce the power of individual leaders; detach them from the collective leadership exercised in theory by the Politburo

78
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What monument in Moscow showed how the cult of Lenin was developed more after his death?

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Embalming his body for display in the mausoleum in Red Square

79
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When was Petrograd renamed Leningrad?

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1924

80
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How was the cult of Stalin invaluable in supporting his career?

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Linked him to Lenin during the power struggle of the 1920s; reinforced his personal dictatorship in the 1930s

81
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Which town was renamed Stalingrad in 1925?

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Tsaritsyn

82
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When were images of Stalin used to reinforce his power by giving the impression of the all-present and all-knowing leader?

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1930s

83
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What did the statues erected of Stalin give him the stature of?

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Tsar Alexander III

84
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Which actor made a career out of playing Stalin?

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Mikhail Gilovani

85
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When did Stalin’s cult of personality rise to ever more ridiculous heights?

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Early 1950s

86
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Which canal was littered with statues of Stalin along its banks?

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Volga-Don Canal

87
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Why were the advantages for Khrushchev in developing his own personality cult?

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Allowed him to be seen as the more important leader as power had originally been shared after 1953 with Malenkov; suited his style of leadership

88
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When did Khrushchev’s personality cult take on a more desperate tone?

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As his policy failures mounted

89
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When was a personality cult useful for Brezhnev?

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In the power struggle with Kosygin and Podgorny that followed Khrushchev’s removal

90
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What was different about Brezhnev’s cult of personality?

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Less a method of securing power than a substitute for real power

91
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What was one of the key reasons for Brezhnev’s popularity?

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His reluctance to use his power to bring about change

92
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How many medals was Brezhnev awarded?

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At least 100

93
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What is an example of one of the medals Brezhnev received?

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Lenin Prize for Literature for his memoirs

94
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When did Brezhnev’s personality cult take on a more practical element?

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After 1975 when his health deteriorated

95
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When was Patriarch Tikhon put under house arrest?

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End of 1918

96
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How were priests persecuted?

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Deprived of the vote; denied rations during the civil war; suffered as victims of the Red Terror of 1921-1922

97
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How many bishops were still at liberty by 1939?

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12/163

98
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When did Stalin’s religious repression become more moderate?

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WW2

99
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What were Khrushchev’s views on religion?

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Fervently anti-religious

100
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When did Khrushchev launch a harsh anti-religious campaign which continued until his death?

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1958-59

101
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How many churches were closed between 1958-62?

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10,000

102
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Why did Brezhnev approach religion more moderately?

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Religious persecution didn’t go down well in the West and had a damaging impact on the USSR’s attempts to conduct foreign policy

103
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How were religious services monitored during Brezhnev’s rule?

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Council of Religious Affairs

104
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When was the Christian Committee for the Defence of Believers’ Rights set up?

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1976

105
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How did Brezhnev react to the Christian Committee for the Defence of Believers’ Rights?

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Sentenced its leader, Father Yakunin, to 5 years imprisonment in 1979

106
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Why was dealing with Islam a difficult task for the Bolsheviks?

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More engrained into a distinct way of life and integrated within its community

107
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When did the government feel confident enough to attack Islamic institutions and rituals?

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Mid-1920s

108
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When was the campaign against the veiling of women launched?

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International Women’s Day in 1927

109
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When did the measures against Islamic practices result in a series of violent revolts?

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1928-29

110
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Why did the Bolsheviks attack Islam so violently?

A

Its links to national minorities within the USSR threatened the social cohesion of the state

111
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How much of the population believed in God by 1980?

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Only 25%

112
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When was Andropov’s suppression of dissidents?

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1967-82

113
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Which organisation took over the surveillance of perceived enemies in 1953?

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KGB

114
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When did Andropov take over the leadership of the KGB?

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1967

115
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Who were the dissidents?

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Those who criticised the Soviet state or system

116
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Which different groups did the dissidents fall into?

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Intellectuals; political dissidents; nationalists; religious dissidents

117
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What is one of the most famous examples of an intellectual being suppressed under Andropov’s orders?

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Andrei Sakharov- a nuclear scientist

118
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Where were Catholic dissidents often prominent?

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Baltic republics

119
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Refuseniks

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Soviet Jews who had been denied their wish to emigrate to Israel

120
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What did all the dissidents share a concern with?

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Human rights; freedom of expression

121
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Samizdat

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Illegal, self-published materials that shared concerns and criticisms of the Soviet system

122
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When did samizdat become popular?

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Late 1960s

123
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What was one of the most well-known samizdat materials?

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‘Chronicle of Current Events’

124
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What was ‘Chronicle of Current Events’?

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Underground newsletter that highlighted human rights abuses and the treatment of dissidents

125
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When did the dissidents become bolder and start using the foreign press to advance their cause?

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1970s

126
Q

What are the nationalist groups that called for greater status for their own national languages and culture?

A

Ukranians; Latvians; Lithuanians; Georgians

127
Q

How many political prisoners did Amnesty International estimate that there were by the mid-1970s?

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10,000

128
Q

When had a new criminal code abolished night-time interrogations of the KGB and limited its powers?

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1960

129
Q

What had provided the authorities with useful catch-all powers of dealing with anything considered ‘anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda’?

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Article 70

130
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When was the new criminal code of 1960 dropped?

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1966

131
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What was an important development in the treatment of dissidents?

A

Use of psychiatric hospitals

132
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What ran the psychiatric hospitals used for dissidents?

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NKVD

133
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Who is an example of someone held in a psychiatric hospital for being a dissident?

A

Zhores Medvedev- a writer and scientist

134
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What was a method, other than the psychiatric hospitals, used to limit the impact of dissidents?

A

Internal exile

135
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When had the Soviet leadership become increasingly concerned with its international reputation?

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In light of the Helsinki Accords

136
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When were the Helsinki Accords signed?

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1975

137
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Why did the dissidents never really threaten the social or political stability of the country?

A

Collection of individuals and never a coherent group; limited support

138
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What is an example of the limited support of the dissidents being exposed?

A

Organisation of public protest against the Prague Spring in 1968 in the Red Square- only 7 people showed

139
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What played a key role in preventing many people from joining dissident protest?

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Fear of the secret police

140
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How effective was Andropov’s suppression of dissidents?

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Succeeded in keeping the dissident groups small, divided and in a state of mutual mistrust

141
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How did Andropov’s methods of dealing with opposition differ from those of the Stalin years?

A

Andropov’s methods were more subtle and sophisticated

142
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How did the KGB change under Andropov’s leadership?

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Its professionalism, reputation and status grew considerably

143
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When did Andropov become General Secretary of the Communist Party?

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1982

144
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Why had Andropov become convinced that dissident action could easily turn into a popular uprising that might threaten the state?

A

He had served as the Soviet Ambassador to Hungary during the Hungarian Uprising of 1956

145
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How did Andropov’s monitoring of the dissident groups change after 1982?

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Increased

146
Q

Why did Andropov attempt to bring greater efficiency to the USSR?

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Realised that dissidents didn’t represent the majority of the population; popular discontent was more likely to be based on economic concerns

147
Q

How did Andropov attempt to promote economic reform?

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Tried to connect with the people; appointed new free-thinking government advisers; made a conscious effort to promote a younger, more-reformist generation

148
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When did Andropov have an unsuccessful visit to a Moscow factory?

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February 1983

149
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In appointing new advisers, who did Andropov make particular use of?

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Group of sociologists and economists from Novosibirsk

150
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Who did Andropov promote in an effort to promote a younger, more-reformist generation?

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Gorbachev; Yegor Ligachev; Nikolai Ryzhkov

151
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What do Andropov’s methods of monitoring popular discontent show about him?

A

A greater desire to meet the needs of the general population and for reform

152
Q

Where did Andropov’s methods of monitoring popular discontent stall?

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In the development of firm action to address these public concerns

153
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What seriously hampered Andropov’s ability to introduce more wide-ranging reform?

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Ill health

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