Unit 3 Introduction

Question 1

Bolsheviks seize power

Answer 1

October 1917

Question 2

Establishment of Cheka

Answer 2

1917

Question 3

Establishment of the Commissariat of Enlightenment

Answer 3

1917

Question 4

Cultural Revolution launched

Answer 4

1928

Question 5

The Gulag set up: system of labour camps expanded

Answer 5

1930

Question 6

Cultural Revolution ends

Answer 6

1932

Question 7

Socialist Realism promoted

Answer 7

1932

Question 8

Secret police reformed as the NKVD

Answer 8

1934

Question 9

KGB established

Answer 9

1954

Question 10

Khrushchev starts dismantling the Gulag

Answer 10

1956

Question 11

Khrushchev’s cultural ‘thaw’ begins

Answer 11

1957

Question 12

Andropov becomes head of KGB

Answer 12

1967

Question 13

Growth of dissident activity

Answer 13

1970s

Question 14

Andropov launches clampdown on dissident activity and suppression of arts

Answer 14

1982

Question 15

The SU is formally disbanded

Answer 15

December 1991

Question 16

First book to be banned by Communist regime

Answer 16

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Question 17

Why was We banned?

Answer 17

Portrayed a modern industrial society where government control over the people was taken to the extreme.
Talked about how society is controlled through propaganda and everyone is spied upon by an ever-present secret police