Stalinism Politics & Control Flashcards
Stalinism
widespread terror to enforce policies & stop op = paranoia - operating early 1930s m intense after 1934 K’s Murder
STs hid scale consitution = driving force
under L purges meant loss of membership
1934 - NKVD took over gulags & labour camps
early 30s famine used to supress
Machinery of State Terror
already police state by end of 1920s
surveillance used
1928
Shatky trial
5 exec
1929
T expelled
1930
Indust Party Trial
1932
Ryutin impris Z & K expelled - crit S in Ryutin Platform
R impris for 10yrs others expelled for not reporting
1933
Party purge
= 3.2 mil mems after rule relax 1929 over 570k R’s expelled
Kirov’s murder
S’s pols attacked 17th PC - serious probs - famine protests over low wages = targets of purges
K = threat former sup leads Lgrad - strong power base = sec of equal rank
dec K shot by Nikolayev blamed T threat - Yagoda given powers to arrest & exec terrorist plotters over 100 shot 1000s sent to camps
1935 death pen extended - murder used to start purges
Show Trials
used to emph threat from enemies of state who hid crimes under loyalty - shift blame for probs = v harsh
NKVD tortured until signed confession
1935 those over 12 = tried as adults = pressure on parents
Trial of 16 August 1936
1st maj trial K & Z accept respon for K’s murder & planning s’s & alli w/ T no evidence both shot T exec ordered
Stalin Constitution
intro 1936 B drafts declare soc = acheived
= fed of 11 sov repubs each w/ supreme sov replacing cofsovs each had some right of juris inclu primary edu ethnic groups prom autonomy & sup for culs
elec every 4 years over 18 vote freedom from arbitrary. arrest etc
expected to work & given work edu & welfare
reality = repressioin but used to argue agaisnt relig repres in reality sovs not allowed to leave
