Socialist men&men+cultural change

Question 1

Building socialism was partly about economic change but the regime was also intent on creating a new type of citizen, what citizen?

Answer 1

a new socialist man and woman

Question 2

Although well educated and intelligent, socialist men and women were not what?

Answer 2

independent thinkers

Question 3

What role did new industrial complex’s such as Magnitorsk have on the new citizen?

Answer 3

this allowed a new environment which influenced the concept of the new citizen

Question 4

There were periodic events such as what, with processions and festivals glorifying the triumph of socialism?

Answer 4

Stalins birthday 18th December

Question 5

The most famous scientist in Soviet Russia was Lysenko, what did he believe which would make the task of the State promoting a well-ordered socialiser society easier?

Answer 5

he belied that if human beings acquired the right characteristics, they could be passed on to the next generation

Question 6

Who was the mot famous scientist in Soviet Russia who believe that f human beings acquired the right characteristics, they could be passed on to the next generation which would make the task of the State promoting a well-ordered socialiser society easier?

Answer 6

Lysenko

Question 7

Who were enthusiastic about the creation of the new ‘socialist man’ and led the attack on bourgeois values and sometimes burned or vandalised non-localist books and artworks and mocked religion?

Answer 7

Komsomol members

Question 8

Komsomol members helped spread the proletarian culture as they participated in ________ which were used in collectivisation and industrialisation?

Answer 8

shock brigades

Question 9

by 1941 how many churches in 40 were still working?

Answer 9

1

Question 10

By what year had 152 of the 168 bishops in place in 1930 been killed or incarcerated?

Answer 10

1941

Question 11

By 1941 how many of the 168 bishops in place in 1930 had been killed or incarcerated?

Answer 11

152

Question 12

Who was Gorky?

Answer 12

He was a renowned author who declared that under Stalin, Russian writers had ‘lost nothing but the right to be bad writers’

Question 13

who declared that under Stalin, Russian writers had ‘lost nothing but the right to be bad writers’?

Answer 13

renowned author Gorky

Question 14

Who was Pasternak?

Answer 14

he was a leading Russian poet who welcomed the revolution but by the 1930’s was considered bourgeois for his failure to embrace socialist realism. He was only spared from the purge as Stalin admired his translations of Georgian classics. Persecuted in the USSR during stalin’s later years.

Question 15

he was a leading Russian poet who welcomed the revolution but by the 1930’s was considered bourgeois for his failure to embrace socialist realism. He was only spared from the purge as Stalin admired his translations of Georgian classics.
who?

Answer 15

Pasternak

Question 16

Where were some writers sent to work?

Answer 16

on industrial or agricultural sites

Question 17

Some writers were sent to work on industrial or agricultural sites; this was not necessarily a punishment but a way of trying to do what?

Answer 17

to make sure they were fully imbued with socialist values

Question 18

What was the avant-garde?

Answer 18

new and experimental ideas and methods in art, music, or literature:

Question 19

The midi 1930’s saw an attack on the avant-garde. In what year, for example, did Pravada publish a damning critique of Shostakovich’s opera under the headline “Chaos instead of music”?

Answer 19

1936

Question 20

The midi 1930’s saw an attack on the avant-garde.In 1936 for example, the Pravada published a damning critique of which opera under the headline “Chaos instead of music”?

Answer 20

Shostakovich’s opera

Question 21

When Stalin heard of the Shostakovich’s opera after headlining as “chaos instead of music” in the Pravada in 1936, what did he have the composer accused of?

Answer 21

leftist distortions

Question 22

While Shostakovich himself avoided arrest after Stalin had accused his opera of leftist distortions, who was arrested, brutally tortured by the NKVD and shot?

Answer 22

a director who spoke in his defence

Question 23

What year was the Zhdanov cultural purge which is when Shostakovich was often in disgrace with the Soviet regime?

Answer 23

after 1946

Question 24

During the war why was Shostakovich treated as a hero?

Answer 24

for his Leningrad symphony composed during the siege of Leningrad

Question 25

What was the most popular cultural activity among the Russian people?

Answer 25

visiting cinemas

Question 26

The most popular cultural activity among the Russian people was visiting cinemas however which movies were enjoyed more?

Answer 26

Hollywood movies over Soviet propagandist films

Question 27

What was the most frequently borrowed book from the Magnitogorsk library?

Answer 27

How the Steel was Tempered

Question 28

‘How the Steel was Tempered” was the most frequently borrowed book from which library?

Answer 28

Magnitogorsk library

Question 29

The modern Cambridge historian Dr John Barber has suggested that only what fraction of workers wholeheartedly supported the Stalinist regime and its politics?

Answer 29

1/5th

Question 30

Who has suggested hat only 1/5th of workers wholeheartedly supported the Stalinist regime and its politics?

Answer 30

the modern Cambridge historian Dr John Barber