the GPU and the NEP

Question 1

The press?

Answer 1

1922 - Lenin instructed Dzerzhinsky to set up agency within the GPU to monitor press

Question 2

Former Tsarist officers?

Answer 2

GPU kept them under surveillance

Question 3

Intellectuals and students?

Answer 3

1922 - Lenin instructed Dzerzhinsky to supervise deportation of professors and engineers suspected of anti-Communist sympathies
under close scrutiny

Question 4

Public opinion?

Answer 4

under close scrutiny - GPU had power to intercept post + other forms of communication

Question 5

GPU reports?

Answer 5

surveillance reports sent directly to Central Committee

reports on moral problems e.g. drunkenness and gambling sent to Central Committee

Question 6

What did Lenin order Dzerzhinsky to do in Aug 1922?
Name of what Dzerzhinsky organised?
What happened?

Answer 6

ordered political trials of leading socialist opponents
trial of Socialist Revolutionary leaders
accused of treason, sabotage and plotting to overthrow Soviet state. All sentenced to death. Most imprisoned

Question 7

How did the GPU police the semi-capitalist marketplace?

Answer 7

imprisoned Nepmen
harassed women who dressed in Western styles
persecuted young people who danced to jazz
persecuted priests