Secret Police Flashcards
Who did the secret police target under Lenin?
Counter revolutionaries such as trade unionists and Tsarists
What did the cheka get replaced with?
GPU/OGPU
(Lenin) What did the cheka help to enforce?
Grain requisitioning
Examples of the cheka targetting counter revolutionaries
Scalped/burned people alive
Ran concentration camps
Who did the cheka target under the NEP?
Class enemies such as women who wore western clothing, Nepmen and people who listened to jazz
Who was the cheka leader?
Dzerzhinsky
How many people were arrested by the NKVD?
1.5 million- 10% of the adult male population
How many people were killed in the red terror?
200 000- including the tsar’s family
Constituent assembly elections
Violently closed by the cheka after just one day
Yagoda- NKVD
White sea canal constructed through slave labour and 10 000 die. Too shallow to be used for large ships
Trial by 16
Z, K and 14 of their supporters tried and executed
(Stalin) Order number 00447
List of 250 000 potential saboteurs
Role of the NKVD in gulags
They ran them. Economic activity rose from 2bn to 4.5 bn from 1937-1940
How many people get amnesty from gulags under Khrushchev?
2 million
How does the use of the secret police change after Stalin?
It declines
(Khrushchev) What happens to Beria?
Executed
Dr Zhivago
A film which is banned under Khrushchev for criticising Lenin
What does the KGB become?
The new security and intelligence service
What happens to the anti party group (1957)?
Removed from power in a similar way to Stalin
Andropov
Puts dissidents in psychiatric wards to discredit them
How many samizdat are in circulation?
10 000 under Brezhnev
Daniel Sinyavsky trial
Published one samizdat and put in prison for 5 and 7 years respectively. Made an example of.
