USSR Control of the People Lenin

Question 1

Decree on the Press 1917

Answer 1

Gave government emergency powers to shut down counter-revolutionary newspapers

Question 2

State Monopoly on advertising 1918

Answer 2

Ensured only government could post adverts

Question 3

Nationalising the Petrograd Telegraph Agency 1917

Answer 3

Gave government control over electronic communications

Question 4

Revolutionary tribunal of the press January 1918

Answer 4

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

Question 5

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

Answer 5

The All-Russian telegraphing agency responsible for distributing news

Question 6

In what year were socialist newspapers outlawed?

Answer 6

1918

Question 7

How many newspapers and printing presses were closed in 1921?

Answer 7

2000 Newspapers

575 Printing Presses

Question 8

What was Pravada?

Answer 8

A communist ‘truth’ newspaper

Question 9

What was the official newspaper of soviets?

Answer 9

Izvestia

Question 10

Did Lenin agree with his cult of personality?

Answer 10

No

Question 11

In what year were statues of Lenin erected?

Answer 11

1919

Question 12

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

Answer 12

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

Question 13

What was the art form under Lenin called?

Answer 13

Proletkult & Avant-Garde

Question 14

In what year was Glavlit introduced?

Answer 14

1922

Question 15

Who was in charge of policing every publication?

Answer 15

The GPU (secret police)

Question 16

Why did Lenin want to destroy religion?

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Why was Lenin critical of the Orthodox Church?

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Decree on land 1917

Answer 18

Gave peasants the right to own the land they worked on

Question 19

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

Answer 19

1918

Question 20

In what year was the new soviet constitution?

Answer 20

1922

Question 21

In what years was there a terror campaign against priests?

Answer 21

1917-18

Question 22

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

Answer 22

November 1918

Question 23

Why was propaganda used during the famine in 1921?

Answer 23

To use the church’s assets ‘for relief’

Question 24

Why were the communists less antagonistic toward Islam?

Answer 24

There was no connection between Islam and tsarism

Question 25

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

Answer 25

1923

Question 26

What happened in the 1923 debate?

Answer 26

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

Question 27

In what year did public debates with the church stop?

Answer 27

1925

Question 28

What did Communists do during the campaigns on Islam?

Answer 28

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

Question 29

What inspired Soviet art forms?

Answer 29

The revolution and civil war

Question 30

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

Answer 30

1918

Question 31

What was Proletkult art?

Answer 31

The art of the Proletariat

Question 32

What did Lenin believe the workers should do?

Answer 32

Learn from the bourgeoisie art

Question 33

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

Answer 33

84,000 artists and 300 studios

Question 34

What was Agitprop?

Answer 34

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

Question 35

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

Answer 35

On trains and shop windows

Question 36

What art form was most important for Lenin and why?

Answer 36

Cinema, because films flourished in spite of lack of equipment

Question 37

In what year was the Cheka set up?

Answer 37

1917

Question 38

Who was head of the Cheka 1917-26?

Answer 38

Dzerzhinsky

Question 39

What was the main role of the cheka?

Answer 39

To promote communist rule/ attack socialists

Question 40

What did the Cheka shut down in 1918?

Answer 40

The constituent assembly

Question 41

Did the Cheka enforce laws?

Answer 41

No

Question 42

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

Answer 42

Requisition grain

Question 43

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

Answer 43

1922

Question 44

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

Answer 44

They were suspected Tsarist sympathisers

Question 45

In what year were political trials set up?

Answer 45

1922

Question 46

Who did the cheka harass?

Answer 46

class-enemies