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Secret Police Flashcards

1
Q

Who did the secret police target under Lenin?

A

Counter revolutionaries such as trade unionists and Tsarists

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2
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What did the cheka get replaced with?

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GPU/OGPU

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3
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(Lenin) What did the cheka help to enforce?

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Grain requisitioning

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4
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Examples of the cheka targetting counter revolutionaries

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Scalped/burned people alive

Ran concentration camps

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5
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Who did the cheka target under the NEP?

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Class enemies such as women who wore western clothing, Nepmen and people who listened to jazz

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6
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Who was the cheka leader?

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Dzerzhinsky

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7
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How many people were arrested by the NKVD?

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1.5 million- 10% of the adult male population

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8
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How many people were killed in the red terror?

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200 000- including the tsar’s family

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9
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Constituent assembly elections

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Violently closed by the cheka after just one day

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10
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Yagoda- NKVD

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White sea canal constructed through slave labour and 10 000 die. Too shallow to be used for large ships

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Trial by 16

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Z, K and 14 of their supporters tried and executed

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12
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(Stalin) Order number 00447

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List of 250 000 potential saboteurs

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13
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Role of the NKVD in gulags

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They ran them. Economic activity rose from 2bn to 4.5 bn from 1937-1940

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14
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How many people get amnesty from gulags under Khrushchev?

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2 million

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15
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How does the use of the secret police change after Stalin?

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It declines

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16
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(Khrushchev) What happens to Beria?

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Executed

17
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Dr Zhivago

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A film which is banned under Khrushchev for criticising Lenin

18
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What does the KGB become?

A

The new security and intelligence service

19
Q

What happens to the anti party group (1957)?

A

Removed from power in a similar way to Stalin

20
Q

Andropov

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Puts dissidents in psychiatric wards to discredit them

21
Q

How many samizdat are in circulation?

A

10 000 under Brezhnev

22
Q

Daniel Sinyavsky trial

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Published one samizdat and put in prison for 5 and 7 years respectively. Made an example of.

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