Terror

Question 1

Mensheviks arrested start of 1921

Answer 1

5k

Question 2

How many executed 1917-23

Answer 2

200k

Question 3

Amount of party purged under Lenin

Answer 3

1/3

Question 4

% party nonviolently removed by 1935

Answer 4

22%

Question 5

Show trials

Answer 5

Trial of the 16 (left accused of working w Trotsky and murdering Kirov)
Trial of the 17 (party officials who criticised FYPs)
Trial of the 21 (right, Bukharin’s article, Trotskyite-Rightist Bloc)

Question 6

Purge of secret police

Answer 6

Secret Police: 3k personal purged by Yezhov in 1st 6months; Y himself blamed and shot BUT had to release some generals from gulags during the war

Question 7

Purge of Red Army

Answer 7

Purge of Red Army due to its growth of influence (35k officers and 14/16 commanders shot or imprisoned)

Question 8

Khrushchev

Answer 8

Destalinisation = decreases terror
Secret police firmly under party control so no individual could use
Party and gvmnt officials no longer face prison for not meeting targets
BUT 1961 major purge of party secretaries

Question 9

Brezhnev

Answer 9

Not much

Question 10

Yezhov

Answer 10

Head in 36
Massive escalation of terror
1.5 mil (10% male pop) arrested by NKVD ➡️ 680 ded

Question 11

Yagoda

Answer 11

Head 34
Collab w Stalin in turning sec pol against party
Purge too slow shot 38

Question 12

Tortured and executed by 1923

Answer 12

200k

Question 13

Terror 1917-28

Answer 13

Cheka target counter revs, initially short term, targets tsarists, trade unions and rival socialists
Grain req in CW
Closed down opposition papers

Question 14

Mensheviks arrested first 3 months of 1921

Answer 14

5k

Question 15

Beria

Answer 15

Head 38
Mass deport and executions of ethnics
Nuke

Question 16

Andropov (terror)

Answer 16

Head 67
100k dissident artists allowed to emigrate 
Mental asylums
Surveillance
Formal warnings 70k in 70s
1974 Bulldozer exhibition

Question 17

Andropov 82-85

Answer 17

Visited factories
Promoted gen
Listened to concerns (housing, consumer goods)
Clamp down on alccies, absenteeism and black market
Investigated corruption w in party
Workers could be sacked for drunkenness
KGB officer spit checks

Question 18

Alccies by 1987

Answer 18

20 m