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Terror Flashcards

1
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When was the Cheka

A

1917

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2
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What did the Cheka act against?

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Revolutionaries and sabotage

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3
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Who created the Cheka

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Lenin

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4
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What did the Cheka do?

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Orchestrated Red terror during civil war

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5
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How many shots by Cheka during 1921-22

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200K

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6
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Did Cheka operate outside the law

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Yes

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7
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Who led the Cheka?

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“ iron felix” - Dzerhinsky

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8
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When was the OGPU created?

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1923

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9
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OGPU was a…

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Larger, more professional force

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10
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Was the OGPU separate from the the gov & party?

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Increasingly separarte

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11
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OGPU establishes…

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The gulag system

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12
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OGPU led by? Up to what year?

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Dzerhinsky up to his death in 1926

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13
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When was the NKVD created?

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1934

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14
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When was the NKVD powerful and why?

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By mid 1930s fue to show trials

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15
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Who ran the NKVD?

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Yagoda, Yezhov and Beria

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16
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The NKVD greatly expanded?

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Gulags

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17
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Did the NKVD operate outside the law?

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Completely outside

Execution without trial very common

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18
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When was the KGB created

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1954

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19
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The KGB was far more… than NKVD

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Professional

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20
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KGB was controlled by…?

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The party

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21
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The KGB had a key role in what?

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Foreign espionage in Cold War

22
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Did the KGB use terror to control population?

A

No

But oppression of dissidents

23
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Who ran the the KGB

From what year to what year?

A

Andropov

1967-1982

24
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How did yagoda expand the use of the OGPU?

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Rapid expansion of gulag, chief administrator of corrective labour camps

25
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Changes in gulags under yagoda

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  • economic considerations
  • exploiting economic resources
  • achievements: White Sea canal
  • 141 mile canal used up to 180,000 labourers from the gulag
26
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In what year was Yagoda accused of incompetence in safeguarding Kirov?

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1936

27
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Who speeded the process of arrest, trial and imprisonment

A

Yezhov

28
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How many people made up the courts? How were the courts called?

A

Made up of 3 people

Troikas

29
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In September 1937…… processed …….. prisoners each day

A

The Karelian troika

231 prisoners

30
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Who introduced the Conveyor belt system” and what was it

A

Yezhov

Speed up process of greying confessions from NKV system

31
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What aspects of life did Yezhov attacck

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Party army industry &collective farms

32
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How many people arrested during Yezhov period

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1.5m arrests

(10% of male adult population were arrested by the NKVD

33
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From what year to what year was Yezhovshchina and how many ppl deported to Siberia and hour many ppl executed

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635,000 deported to Siberia

680,000 executed

34
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Percentage of men targeted during Yezhov

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95%

35
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When did Yezhiv resign

A

1938

36
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When was Yezhov executed

A

1939

37
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What did Beria want to do W/gulags

A

Make it more profitable

38
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How many roubles were there in 1937 and how many in 1940

Beria

A

2b in 1937

4.5b in 1940

39
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Under Beria the gulags reached its….

A

Biggest expanse

40
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Under Beria what was the quantity of gold that came from the gulags

A

1/3 of Russia’s gold

41
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What was Smersh and who set it up

A

Beria
Dealt w/ suspects spies & involved to root out traitors & involved in the morder of more than 4,000 polish officers at Katyn in 1943

42
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What did Beria do in 1944?

A

Ordered deportations to Siberia of all 460,000 Chenchens from their homelands in Chechnya within 7 days

43
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How many people did Beria interrogate in 1945?

A

1.5m

44
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What was the Leningrad affair and when did it happen?

A

1949
Stalin launched a purge aguanta officials in Leningrad party he claimed that they acted independently around 200 party members arrested & forces to confess crimes against the party

45
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What was the doctors plot and when was it

A

1952-53
Stalin’s medical staff arrested for trying to poison Stalin
Most accused Jews

46
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When did Andropov cami to power?

A

1967

47
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An intellectual dissident

A

Andrei Sakharov

48
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Andrei Sakharov was famous for?

A

My country and the world
Lead scientist m in H-Bomb development
Nobel literature

49
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Expample of political dissident?

A

Leónid Boronid- writer- open orthodox

50
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Example of religious dissidents

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Member of Russian Orthodox Church

51
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What famous Novel did Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote?

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The gulag archipiélago, 1968

52
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When did Alexander Solzhenitsyn receive the Nobel prize

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1979

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