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AQA History - Tsarist and Communist Russia 1855-1964 > Stalin - Political Authority and Culture 1946-1953 > Flashcards

Stalin - Political Authority and Culture 1946-1953 Flashcards

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1
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What is ‘Political High Stalinism’?

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The years that followed WWII - totalitarian state

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2
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When was the (state defence committee) GKO dissolved?

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September 1945

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3
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Who took the role of Minister of Defence?

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Stalin

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4
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Which high ranking officer was demoted?

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Zhukov

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5
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What was Zhukov’s demotion?

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Sent to Odessa, lost seat in Central Committee

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6
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Why was Zhukov demoted?

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Viewed as a rival

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7
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Which figures were ‘played off’ each other?

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Malenkov and Zhdanov

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8
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How were the ‘played off’?

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Zhdanov criticised Malenkov’s policies - latter lost position as Party Secretary

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9
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What did Zhdanov launch?

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The Zhdanovishchina

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10
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When did Zhdanov die?

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1948

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11
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What did Zhdanov’s death start?

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The Doctor’s plot

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12
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When was Malenkov appointed Party Secretary?

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1948

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13
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When did the USSR possess the atom bomb?

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1949

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14
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What new territory did the USSR gain?

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Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Romania

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15
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How long did the Party Congress not meet for?

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1939-1952

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16
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How did Stalin lead?

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Through a ‘Personal Dictatorship’

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17
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How did Stalin undermine the Party?

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  • reduced Politburo to an advisory body
  • CC met only 6 times after 1946
  • Party Congress not held for 13 years
18
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In 1952, how many members did the Party have?

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7 million

19
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Where were members recruited from?

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Administrative ranks, industry, government and education

20
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What needed to be raised in the Party?

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The education level

21
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Who was recruited less to the Party?

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Peasants and Workers

22
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Who were the ‘Old Men’?

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Members that had joined the party for Marxism

23
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Who were ‘New Men’?

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Members who had joined the party as a way of life - ‘faceless bureaucrats

24
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When did the Zhdanovshchina occur?

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1946

25
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What was purged under Zhdanovshchina?

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  • Ana Akhmatova’s poems as ‘poisonous’
  • journal ‘The adventures of a monkey’ as ‘anti-Soviet’
26
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What is ‘Socialist Realism’?

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Idealsied, realistic socialist art movement and revealed what socialist life WOULD become

27
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What happened to Shostakovich?

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Denounced as a ‘rootless cosmopolitan’

28
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When was the Presidium established?

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1952 - in the October Party Congress

29
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Who was Geogri Malenkov?

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  • a part of defence council in the war
  • 1946 appointed as deputy Prime Minister
  • 1946 full member of Presidium
  • exercise brief period of leadership 1953
30
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Who was Nikita Khrushchev?

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  • worked for the Party in Kiev
  • 1935 organised building of Moscow underground
  • during the war assisted in military operation at Kursk
  • entered Politburo in 1939
  • 1953 became Party Secretary
31
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Who was Lavrenti Beria?

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  • career in the secret police
  • replaced Yezhov as head of NKVD 1938
  • politburo member 1946
32
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When was the Leningrad Case?

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1949

33
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What was the Leningrad Case?

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Purge against the ‘Leningrad party’ with officials arrested - some executed

34
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How was anti-Semitism revived?

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  • the creation of the Israel state made USSR pro Palestine
  • Golda Meir - Israeli ambassador in 1948
  • Jewish wives of politburo members were arrested (Molotov’s wife)
35
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What was the Mingrelian case in 1951-1952

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  • a purge in Georgia
  • directed against the followers of Beria
  • aimed at weakening the authority of Beria
36
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When was The Doctor’s Plot?

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1952

37
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What was the Doctor’s Plot?

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  • 1948 accusation against 9 doctors concerning the death of Zhdanov
  • file reopened in 1952
  • Jews were convicted of misusing their medical profession to harm USSR
  • 9 doctors were condemned and sentenced to execution
38
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When did Stalin die?

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March 1953

39
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What happened to the NKVD after the war?

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Strengthened and reorganised

40
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What was the NKVD reorganised into?

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Under two separate ministries:
- internal affairs
- state security

41
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How many wartime survivors were sent to labour camps?

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12 million

42
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Who could be singled out?

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All - the party, police, procuracy, colleagues and friends

AQA History - Tsarist and Communist Russia 1855-1964 (19 decks)

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