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Decree on the Press 1917

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Gave government emergency powers to shut down counter-revolutionary newspapers

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State Monopoly on advertising 1918

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Ensured only government could post adverts

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Nationalising the Petrograd Telegraph Agency 1917

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Gave government control over electronic communications

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Revolutionary tribunal of the press January 1918

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People who committed ‘crimes against the people’ would be censored

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What is R.O.S.T.A?

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The All-Russian telegraphing agency responsible for distributing news

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In what year were socialist newspapers outlawed?

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1918

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How many newspapers and printing presses were closed in 1921?

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2000 Newspapers

575 Printing Presses

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What was Pravada?

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A communist ‘truth’ newspaper

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What was the official newspaper of soviets?

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Izvestia

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Did Lenin agree with his cult of personality?

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No

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In what year were statues of Lenin erected?

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1919

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Why did Lenin allow for his cult of personality to continue?

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Pragmatic reasons - thought it would help establish communism and lead to public trust in Lenin

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What was the art form under Lenin called?

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Proletkult & Avant-Garde

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In what year was Glavlit introduced?

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1922

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Who was in charge of policing every publication?

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The GPU (secret police)

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Why did Lenin want to destroy religion?

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It was disliked by Marx (‘opium of the masses’)

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Why was Lenin critical of the Orthodox Church?

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It was an essential ally of the Tsar / It was a very rich + bourgeoisie institution

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Decree on land 1917

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Gave peasants the right to own the land they worked on

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WHat year was the decree that separated the church and state schools?

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1918

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In what year was the new soviet constitution?

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1922

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In what years was there a terror campaign against priests?

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1917-18

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When did the Politburo sanction mass execution and terror of priests by the Cheka?

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November 1918

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Why was propaganda used during the famine in 1921?

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To use the church’s assets ‘for relief’

24
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Why were the communists less antagonistic toward Islam?

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There was no connection between Islam and tsarism

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In what year was a national congress introduced to centralise religion?

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1923

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What happened in the 1923 debate?

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A religious leader debated with Lunarcharsky and gained widespread support that science couldn’t disprove the existence of God

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In what year did public debates with the church stop?

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1925

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What did Communists do during the campaigns on Islam?

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Closed mosques / disclosed pilgrimages / attacked Islamic shrines / started campaigns against women in traditional dress

29
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What inspired Soviet art forms?

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The revolution and civil war

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In what year was ‘beat the whites with the red wedge’ drawn?

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1918

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What was Proletkult art?

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The art of the Proletariat

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What did Lenin believe the workers should do?

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Learn from the bourgeoisie art

33
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By 1920, how many artists were there and how many studios?

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84,000 artists and 300 studios

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What was Agitprop?

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Agitational propaganda used during the civil war to attempt to ignite revolutionary zeal

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Where did R.O.S.T.A place Agitprop posters?

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On trains and shop windows

36
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What art form was most important for Lenin and why?

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Cinema, because films flourished in spite of lack of equipment

37
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In what year was the Cheka set up?

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1917

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Who was head of the Cheka 1917-26?

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Dzerzhinsky

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What was the main role of the cheka?

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To promote communist rule/ attack socialists

40
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What did the Cheka shut down in 1918?

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The constituent assembly

41
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Did the Cheka enforce laws?

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No

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What did the Cheka help the red army do during the civil war?

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Requisition grain

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In what year was an organisation set up to monitor the press?

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1922

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Why was the Cheka told to suppress teachers and engineers in 1922?

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They were suspected Tsarist sympathisers

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In what year were political trials set up?

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1922

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Who did the cheka harass?

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class-enemies

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