Turning Points Repression Revision

Question 1

Turning Points Repression Revision

Answer 1

turning points repression revision

Question 2

CRIMEAN WAR:
When did Alexander II relax censorship?

Answer 2

1865

Question 3

What did Alexander II still believe after the Crimean War?

Answer 3

Autocracy and that God wanted him to be tsar

Question 4

What was introduced in 1864?

Answer 4

The Zemstva

Question 5

What system was introduced in 1864?

Answer 5

The introduction of a jury system

Question 6

When was the emancipation edict?

Answer 6

1861

Question 7

How many people received their liberty in the emancipation edict?

Answer 7

23 million

Question 8

What policy did Alexander II introduce?

Answer 8

Glasnost (openness)

Question 9

What newspaper did the government publish?

Answer 9

Ruskii

Question 10

How many books were published in 1864?

Answer 10

1836 books

Question 11

DEATH OF ALEXANDER II:
What was passed in 1881 which gave the Okhrana more powers?

Answer 11

The Statute Concerning measures for the Production of State Security and the Social Order

Question 12

When was the ‘People’s Will’ disbanded?

Answer 12

1884

Question 13

Who was assassinated in May 1887?

Answer 13

Lenin’s brother

Question 14

What did the Okhrana have the power to do under Alexander III?

Answer 14

Infiltrate dissident groups

Question 15

What did the army enforce under Alexander III?

Answer 15

Russification

Question 16

What was the period under Alexander III known as?

Answer 16

The ‘Reaction’

Question 17

Who influenced the ‘Reaction’?

Answer 17

Konstantin Pobedonostsev

Question 18

What did Alexander III introduce in 1889 to control the behaviour of peasants?

Answer 18

Land Captains

Question 19

What local government was banned under Alexander III?

Answer 19

The mir

Question 20

What was the government allowed to do in regards to publishing?

Answer 20

The government was allowed to censor books before they were published

Question 21

1905 REVOLUTION:
What did Nicholas II have the power to do after the Fundamental Laws?

Answer 21

Shut down the Duma

Question 22

How many Dumas were there from 1906 to 1917?

Answer 22

4

Question 23

How many Dumas did Nicholas II shut down from 1906 to 1907?

Answer 23

2

Question 24

What did Nicholas II use repression to implement after 1906?

Answer 24

Autocracy

Question 25

How many people were executed in 1909?

Answer 25

537 people

Question 26

Why did Nicholas II shut down the first Duma in July 1906?

Answer 26

He claimed the actions of the Duma were illegal when they had a radical option for land redistribution which quickly gained press coverage

Question 27

Who were executed between the first and second Dumas and what were they known as?

Answer 27

Kadet and Labourist party members who had signed the Vyborg Manifesto were executed - known as Stolypin's neckties

Question 28

What could the Okhrana do after 1905?

Answer 28

Execute without trial

Question 29

OCTOBER REVOLUTION: How many people did the Cheka execute per year from 1917 to 1922?

Answer 29

28,000

Question 30

What was the role of the Cheka?

Answer 30

To deal with 'counter-revolutionaries'

Question 31

How did the Cheka victimise people?

Answer 31

The Cheka victimised people on who they were, not what they had done

Question 32

How many conscripts were in the Red Army by 1922?

Answer 32

5 million

Question 33

What did the Red Army impose along with the Cheka?

Answer 33

War Communism

Question 34

Why was press freedom abolished?

Answer 34

To suppress 'counter-revolutionaries'

Question 35

When was Agitprop created?

Answer 35

1921

Question 36

When did Lenin ban all other parties?

Answer 36

1921

Question 37

How many people were killed in Tambov's rebellion?

Answer 37

140,000

Question 38

What was used on peasants in Tambov's rebellion?

Answer 38

Chemical weapons

Question 39

THE RISE OF STALIN: How did Stalin use repression?

Answer 39

Through the NKVD/gulags

Question 40

How many members of the NKVD had been killed by 1938?

Answer 40

20,000

Question 41

When did Stalin take control of Party Congress?

Answer 41

1927

Question 42

What did the NKVD create?

Answer 42

A permanent form of terror

Question 43

What high-rankings communists were executed by the NKVD?

Answer 43

Bukharin, Kamenev, Zinoviev, Trotsky

Question 44

What two NKVD leaders were executed in 1938 and 1940 respectively?

Answer 44

Yagoda and Yezhov

Question 45

When was the 'Great Terror'?

Answer 45

1936 to 1938

Question 46

How was the army leadership purged in the 'Great Terror'?

Answer 46

40% of top army leadership was executed from 1936 to 1938

Question 47

What was set up for writers?

Answer 47

The Union of Soviet Writers (USW)

Question 48

How many writers were put on trial for treason in August 1952?

Answer 48

15 - 13 executed

Question 49

What did Stalin create around himself and Lenin?

Answer 49

A cult of personality

Question 50

How many people died in the Holodomor famine?

Answer 50

7.5 million people

Question 51

How many peasants were executed on collectivised farms between 1932 and 1933?

Answer 51

125,000

Question 52

How many kulaks were deported to Kazakhstan?

Answer 52

5 million

Question 53

DE-STALINISATION: How many political prisoners were there by 1960?

Answer 53

11,000

Question 54

What did Khrushchev launch an attack on in a speech in 1956?

Answer 54

'The Cult of the Individual and its Consequences'

Question 55

How many books were published per year under Khrushchev?

Answer 55

65,000

Question 56

What did Khrushchev replace the MVD with in 1954?

Answer 56

The KGB

Question 57

What was the KGB under?

Answer 57

Party control

Question 58

When were the gulags shut down?

Answer 58

1955

Question 59

What was the size of the army in 1955 and 1964?

Answer 59

1955 - 3.6 million 1964 - 2.4 million

Question 60

How many libraries were there containing how many books by 1959?

Answer 60

135,000 libraries containing 8 billion books

Question 61

How many workers were executed after a protest in Novocherkassk over food riots?

Answer 61

23