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USSR: Topic 1 - Government Flashcards

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October 1917 (3)

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October Revolution
Decree on Land – peasants can seize land
Decree on Peace – withdrawal from WW1

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Lenin’s tenure

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1917-1924

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All Russian Congress of Soviets

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A congress made up of representatives sent by small local elected Soviets

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Sovnarkom (4)

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Council of People’s Commissars (or the Russian Cabinet)
Responsible to the All Russian Congress of Soviets
Ostensibly, governed on a day-to-day basis
Rubber stamped the decisions of the Politburo

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November 1917 (3)

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Workers’ Decree – 8-hour max. day and min. wages
Decree of Workers’ Control – workers elect committees in factories
Nationwide election – Bolshevik minority in Constituent Assembly

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January 1918

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Lenin closes Constituent Assembly

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3 March 1918

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Unpopular Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

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April-May 1918

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Bolsheviks loses general election

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Summer 1918 - 1921

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Russian Civil War

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Lenin’s Politburo (3)

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A committee made up of Lenin and around 7 of his most loyal supporters
The primary organ of government
Dictated policy to the Sovnarkom and the All Russian Congress of Soviets

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Nomenklatura (3)

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Party members trusted by senior officials to implement government policy
The former educated middle class of the pre-revolutionary government
Superseded the local soviets

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December 1917

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Creation of the Cheka

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1920-1921

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Droughts threatening famine

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January 1921

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Tambov Uprising

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Tambov Uprising (3)

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Led by Aleksandr Antonov
Rebellion against grain requisitioning and the Cheka
A force of 50,000 anti-communist fighters

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March 1921

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Peasant attacks on government grain stores along the Volga River

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Kronstadt Mutiny

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Mutiny by sailors at Kronstadt naval base
Demanded a series of democratic reforms
“Soviets without Communism”

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Mid-March 1921

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Kronstadt Mutiny crushed by Red Army

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May 1921

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Tambov Uprising repressed with 100,000 people deported to gulags

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February 1921

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Cheka destroys opposition political parties

22 leading Social Revolutionaries were sentenced to prison or exiled

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The 1921 Party Congress (2)

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Introduction of the New Economic Plan (NEP)

“On Party Unity” introduced banning factionalism within the Party

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“On Party Unity”

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A resolution that meant party members found guilty of forming factions, such as the Workers’ Opposition or the Democratic Centralists, would be expelled from the party

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Socialism in one country

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1924: Bukharin and Stalin believed that socialism should first be established in the USSR instead of waiting for a global revolution

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Collectivisation and Industrialisation

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1928: Stalin argued peasants should work on state-owned farms and that the USSR should be industrialised at a rapid pace

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1923

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Stalin issues his first “approved list” of party members

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May 1924

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128.000 new members to the Party via Stalin’s Lenin Enrolment initiative

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Party of 1928

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Less revolutionary and more career-driven members who owed their jobs to Stalin

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Stalin’s tenure

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1928-1953

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Stalin’s powers in 1928 (2)

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General Secretary – able to give powerful jobs to Party members
Head of Central Control Commission – able to investigate and sack Party and government officials

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Apparatchiks

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Party members, or apparatus, who implemented orders and nothing else

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Sergei Kirov

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Head of the Communist Party in Leningrad who was challenging Stalin’s authority

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1932 (2)

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Sergei Kirov defend Stalinist critic Martemyan Ryutin

Sergei Kirov forms Union of Marxist Leninists

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February 1934 (3)

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Congress of Victors
Sergei Kirov receives around 300 more votes than Stalin
Sergei Kirov urged by senior members to stand against Stalin as General Secretary

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Congress of Victors

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A congress which elects the Central Committee

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December 1934

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Sergei Kirov assassinated and his death is used as the pretext to launch the Great Terror

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1935-1938

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The Great Terror or Great Purge

37
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The Great Terror

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A campaign of arrests, torture, imprisonments and executions that killed around 10 million Soviet citizens

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1937 (2)

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Trial of the 17 – execution of 17 Trotskyites

Execution of 8 senior generals in the Red Army

39
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1938

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Trial of the 21 – execution of Bukharin and his closest supporter

40
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37,000

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The number of officers purged in the Red Army

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1941

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Stalin becomes Chair of Sovnarkom making him the most powerful man in the Party and now the government

42
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Ministers

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The People’s Commissars under Stalin

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Council of Ministers –> Presidium

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The Sovnarkom under Stalin

44
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GKO

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The State Defence Committee responsible for economic co-ordination, military production, and defence

45
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Power shifts (x4)

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1) Party under the Politburo is the most powerful
2) State power grows = State ministers in Politburo
3) GKO becomes the most powerful committee during the war
4) Party is given more power = Council of Ministers is the most powerful

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1953-1955

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Power struggle between Nikita Khrushchev, Georgy Malenkov and Lavrentiy Beria

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March 1953

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Beria introduces amnesty for non-political prisoners

48
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May 1953

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Creation of a party commission to investigate past executions

49
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Khrushchev’s tenure

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1953-1964

50
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4620

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The number of communists rehabilitated, under Beria’s reforms, who had been executed based on forced confessions

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Gulag population: 1953-1956

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1953: 2.4 million
1956: 1.6 million

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June 1953 (2)

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Beria increases republican representation through lingual inclusivity
Beria is executed

53
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Lingual inclusivity (2)

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Senior Party officials must speak the language of the republic they work in
All official publications must be available in each republic’s language

54
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44%

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The percentage of the Central Committee that Khrushchev replaced

55
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68% –> 44%

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The proportion by which Soviet industry controlled by the central government decreased

56
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20th Party Congress

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14-25th February 1956

Khrushchev’s Secret Speech

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May 1954

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Khrushchev sets up a special commission to review the case of political prisoners

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June 1956

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51,439 prisoners were released by Khrushchev’s special commission

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1961

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½ of those executed by Stalin were rehabilitated

60
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Mid-December 1957

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Establishment of an Anti-Communist Commission, headed by Leonid Brezhnev, to suppress anti-communist activities

61
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Party membership: 1954-1964

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1954: 6.9 million
1964: 11 million

62
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105

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The number of new economic councils created by the decentralisation of central ministries

63
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June 1957

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An attempted coup by Georgy Malenkov that was supported by the Presidium but not the Central Committee

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October 1961

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22nd Party Congress

65
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22nd Party Congress (3)

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Fixed terms for all jobs in the Party
Fixed 16-year terms for Central Committee members
Split of the Party into industrial and agriculture bureaus

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October 1964

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Khrushchev forced into retirement by senior Party members who had the backing of the Central Committee

67
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Stability of Cadres

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A policy that discouraged promotions and demotions replacing Khrushchev’s policy of limited terms

68
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Brezhnev’s tenure

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1964-1970 with Alexei Kosygin

1970-1982

69
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1977 Soviet Constitution

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Known as the “Brezhnev Constitution” which recognised the supremacy of the Party over the state

70
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Centralisation (2)

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Re-establishment of all-union ministries

The end of the industrial and agricultural split in the Party

71
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1964-1970

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Only 2 people promoted to the Politburo

72
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1966-1971

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90% of Central Committee members retained their jobs

73
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75

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Average age of the Politburo in 1982

74
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Galina Brezhneva

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Her lover, Boris the Gypsy, smuggled millions of pounds worth of diamonds out of the USSR

75
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Andropov’s tenure

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November 1982-February 1984

76
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1/4

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Proportion of senior officials replaced under Andropov

77
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Nikolai Shchelokov

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Red Army General and Minister of the Interior investigated under Andropov’s anti-corruption campaign

78
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Chernenko’s tenure

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February 1984-March 1985

Mikhail Gorbachev led meetings on his behalf as he was bed-ridden

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