Stalin And Opposition 1932: Terror

Question 1

What was the Shakhty show trial 1928?

Answer 1

-clear indication stalins determination find scapegoat for chaos caused by own econ policies
-delivering message regime had to maintain its vigilance against those set destroy it

Question 2

What happened in the shakhty show trial?

Answer 2

-53 engineers shakhty coal mine accused of counter rev activity
-following decline in production there

Question 3

What did this show trial lead to?

Answer 3

-heralded Ind terror which deprived hundreds bourgeois specialists of jobs + lives

Question 4

What happened in the Ind party show trial?

Answer 4

-Nov 1930 group of industrialists accused of sabotage
-followed by 1933 metro vickers trial where br specialists found guilty wrecking activities

Question 5

What happened to Soviet prisoners by 1929?

Answer 5

-no longer cope with number kulaks, bourgeois specialists, wreckers, saboteurs + other opponents arrived
-Yagoda commissioned investigate how prisons population put to use

Question 6

What did Yagoda’s proposals include?

Answer 6

-building on the corrective lab camps est by Lenin
-created new camps c.50k prisoners each in remote areas

Question 7

What did these lab camps (gulags) do?

Answer 7

-contribute econ growth
-offering appropriate correction for prisoners
-under direct authority from OGPU until 1934 when NKVD took over

Question 8

What was a major gulag project?

Answer 8

-construction of the White Sea canal - joined Baltic Sea + White Sea
-dug cheaply with axes in freezing cold - 25k/100k died
-only 12ft depth so useless for shipping