stalin CONTROL

Question 1

what happened to censorship under Stalin?

Answer 1

it was tightened - works of Trotsky, Bukharin and other rivals were banned - Lenin’s works were edited

Question 2

what controlled access to economic information

Answer 2

1928 - GLAVLIT

Question 3

what were restriction placed on in media?

Answer 3

‘bad news’ - natural disasters, suicides, workplace accidents, e.c.t

Question 4

where was propaganda focused?

Answer 4

idealised images of workers and peasants happily building socialism

Question 5

what did the ‘Cult of Stalin’ do?

Answer 5

• emphasised Stalin as ‘the Lenin of Today’
• manipulated history in order to suggest Lenin and Stalin led the revolution together
• Stalin presented as the ‘vozhd’ (leader with ultimate authority)

Question 6

what were Stalin’s policies on religion?

Answer 6

• many churches turned into grain stores as a result of collectivisation
• Stalins terror destroyed islamic groups (e.g Sufi groups were destroyed by 1936)

Question 7

what happened to religion in the war?

Answer 7

Stalin made a pragmatic alliance with the church in order to support the war effort - censorship of church magazines ended, anti religious propaganda ended, 414 churches reopened

Question 8

what did Yagoda do?

Answer 8

• became head of secret police 1934
• played a key role in the Great Terror (helped Stalin turn the secret police against the party)
• purge was slow causing Stalin to be critical

Question 9

what did Yezhov do?

Answer 9

• replaced agents with officers more willing to use torture
• responsible for the worst years of the Great Terror 1936-38

Question 10

how many people were arrested in the Great Terror?

Answer 10

• 1.5 million people arrested
• 10% of male population arrested

Question 11

what did Beria do?

Answer 11

• became head of secret police 1938
• organised mass deportations and executions of ethnic groups
• was put in charge of Soviet efforts to build an atomic bomb

Question 12

what were the 3 main show trials?

Answer 12

• the trial of the 16 (1936 - Zinoviev and his allies)
• the trial of the 17 (1937 - Trotsky and his allies)
• the trial of the 21 (1938 - Bukharin and his allies such as Yagoda)

Question 13

what was the type of art Stalin encouraged?

Answer 13

Socialist realism
- art that was realistic if factory or construction workers producing raw materials
- books that were easy to follow and a subject relating to socialism