Secret Police

Question 1

Up to how many opponents were killed during the Red Terror?

Answer 1

200k

Question 2

What Church figure did the CHEKA kill

Answer 2

Metropolitan Vladimir

Question 3

What did Yezhov do?

Answer 3

increased the ‘arrest to imprisonment process’
widened surveillance of soviet population
increased executions

Question 4

what did Beria preside over?

Answer 4

Beria presided over the Gulag system which strengthened control by harnessing forced labour in support of industrialisation and greater economic productivity

Question 5

The Secret Police under Andropov (1967-82)

Answer 5

Used more sophisticated techniques:
. hospitalisation
. surveillance
. harassment
Psychiatric Institutions - Stay indefinitely + Western Journalists could not have access to records (private)

Question 6

What policies did Lenin introduce that showed a change from Tsarism

Answer 6

. 1918 Family Code

. Religion

Question 7

What happened to the use of secret police after Stalin’s death?

Answer 7

(De-Stalinisation)

Use of Secret Police declined (release of political prisoners by Khrushchev)

Question 8

What was used instead of secret police?

Answer 8

State propaganda = regimes control of mass media and their ability to censor foreign sources of information (glavlit - prepublication censorship)
Soviet Control of Art and Culture = to establish popular endorsement (approval) of USSR (Proletkult, Avant-garde, Socialist Realism)