russian people Flashcards
Created a ‘seven-year plan’ to surpass the US
Khrushchev
Virgin Lands Campaign
Khrushchev
Outmaneuvered Malenkov and Beria to rise to his position
Khrushchev
Advocated for ‘agro-towns’
Khrushchev
Anti-Party group (Molotov, Malenkov, Kaganovich) sought to depose him
Khrushchev
Fiercely against Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago
Khrushchev
Exploded with anger against avant-garde works in Manege Affair
Khrushchev
Abolished prosecution tribunals called ‘troikas’
Khrushchev
Novocherkassk Massacre occurred when food prices were raised
Khrushchev
Kitchen Debate with Nixon
Khrushchev
Banged his shoe at a UN conference in response to a Filipino delegate Lorenzo Sumulong’s speech
Khrushchev
Ordered construction of Berlin Wall
Khrushchev
Oversaw Cuban Missile Crisis
Khrushchev
Oversaw partial liberalization of Poland in Polish October
Khrushchev
Said ‘we will bury you’ in referring to the eventual triumph of communism over capitalism
Khrushchev
Sent industrial experts to China
Khrushchev
Met with American corn farmer Roswell Garst
Khrushchev
Delivered anti-Stalin ‘Secret Speech’ to 20th Congress
Khrushchev
Ruled with Alexei Kosygin and Nikolai Podgorny
Brezhnev
Removed head of Party-State Control Committee Alexander Shelepin
Brezhnev
Writers Yuli Daniel and Andrei Sinyavsky tried under this man’s rule
Brezhnev
Ruled during Era of Stagnation, or ‘Zastoi’
Brezhnev
Signed SALT I with Nixon
Brezhnev
Authorized invasion of Afghanistan after being misinformed of its operations by Mikhail Suslov
Brezhnev
Suppressed Prague Spring in Operation Danube
Brezhnev
Established namesake doctrine in a speech at the Fifth Congress of the Polish United Workers’ Party
Brezhnev
Glorified his efforts at Novorossiysk in a trilogy of memoirs (Minor Land, Rebirth, Virgin Lands)
Brezhnev
Obsessed with receiving medals
Brezhnev
Assassination attempt by Viktor Ilyin instead injured several astronauts
Brezhnev
Kiss with East German leader Honecker in ‘My God, Help Me Survive This Deadly Love’
Brezhnev
End of reign known as ‘Gerontocracy’
Brezhnev
Ordered destruction of realist art display called Bulldozer Exhibition
Brezhnev
Famously declared the Baikal-Amur Mainline would be built with ‘clean hands only’
Brezhnev
Hosted Italian delegation at World Youth Festival
Gorbachev
First stage of one economic policy named uskoreniye (acceleration)
Gorbachev
Succeeded short rules of Andropov and Chernenko
Gorbachev
Created failed merged agricultural entity Agroprom
Gorbachev
Increased drinking age from 18 to 21 among other anti-alcoholic reforms
Gorbachev
Made historian Yury Afanasyev dean of State Historical Archive Faculty
Gorbachev
Thatcher said of this leader, ‘we can do business together’
Gorbachev
Called a leader ‘extraordinarily primitive, troglodyte, and intellectually feeble’
Gorbachev
Created democratically-elected Congress of People’s Deputies
Gorbachev
Signed Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Reagan
Gorbachev
Human chain known as Baltic Way formed as a declaration of autonomy
Gorbachev
Otto von Hapsburg tested this leader in the Pan-European Picnic
Gorbachev
‘Sinatra Doctrine’ allowed Warsaw Pact countries to determine their own internal affairs
Gorbachev
First and only ‘President of the Soviet Union’
Gorbachev
‘500 Days’ Economic program called for increased decentralization and marginal privatization
Gorbachev