Secret police Flashcards
1
Q
How many shot during red terror
A
200,000
2
Q
Chief executioner of NKVD during 1930s
A
Vasily Blokhin
3
Q
Yezhovschina- how many arrested
A
10% male population (1.5 million)
4
Q
How many executed under yezhov
A
700,000
5
Q
Karelian troika dealt with
A
231 cases a day
6
Q
Gulag grew by how much between 1937 and 1940
A
form 2 billion to 4.5 billion
7
Q
Yezhov dismissed and killed when
A
1938 and shot in 1940
8
Q
What did Solzhenitsyn write in 1968
A
Gulag Archipelago
9
Q
What did Sakharov write
A
My country and the world 1975
10
Q
What did Pasternak write
A
Doctor Zhivago 1957
11
Q
What happened to Sakharov
A
Internal exile to Gorky
12
Q
What happened to Solzhenitsyn
A
Exiled to America in 1973
13
Q
How many protestors against Czech spring in 1968
A
7 protestors