Timeline

Question 1

When was the decree on land

Answer 1

1917 October

Question 2

Decree on press

Answer 2

1917 November

Question 3

Cheka established

Answer 3

1917 December

Question 4

Decree concerning separation of church and state

Answer 4

1918 January

Question 5

First photo of Lenin published

Answer 5

1918 January

Question 6

Department of agitation propaganda set up

Answer 6

1920

Question 7

Commissar of enlightenment

Answer 7

1920

Question 8

Glavlit , more systematic censorship regime

Answer 8

1922

Question 9

Union of soviet writers established

Answer 9

1932

Question 10

Yagoda appointed as head of the NKVD

Answer 10

1934

Question 11

Beria became head of the NKVD

Answer 11

1938

Question 12

2 histories of the communist party , both edited by Stalin

Answer 12

1938

Question 13

Leningrad affair

Answer 13

1949

Question 14

Beria arrested and executed

Answer 14

1953

Question 15

Doctor Zhivago refused publication in the Soviet Union

Answer 15

1954

Question 16

Sinyavsky-Daniel trial

Answer 16

1966

Question 17

Yuri Andropov promoted to head of the KGB

Answer 17

1967

Question 18

Prague spring

Answer 18

1968

Question 19

Sakharov circulated his essay , criticising the USSR’S stance on human rights

Answer 19

1968

Question 20

Solzhenitsyn forced into exile

Answer 20

Helsinki agreement on human rights