How accurate is it to say that in the years 1928-80 the goverment of the USSR relied soley on terror
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- How accurate is it to say that in the years 1928-1980, the government of the USSR relied wholly on terror?
- Relied on terror
- 'Great Terror' Kirov (19th party congress) 22% of central committee purged and 1108 of 1966 members that attended party shot
- 1960 Criminal Code - limits the power of the KGB
- Between 1953-60 2 million political prisoners released for gulags
- Khrushchev dismissed 1964 - Stalin would have "had him shot"
- Hungarian uprising 1956 - 15,000 - 30,000 Hungarian insurgents sent to squander
- Army purge 1937-8 3/5 marshals / 14/16 commanders and 35,000 officers purged
- Zhukov released during WW2 (terror decreased)
- Work camps 1965-7 171 imprisoned by 1968-70 528
- 10k prisoners in Mental hospitals
- 1970's Novosibirsk (8 years) for dissident art
- Kulaks -Molotov heads the deportation of Kulaks and there were intimidations used for forced collectives
- Propaganda/ indoctrinantion
- 1950 10k T.V sets = show socialist achievements
- WW2 propaganda
- Youth groups used as a means of indoctrination - 10 million in 1940 to 40 mill by 1982 = indoctrinate the youth who in tern pass on the communist message
- prepare for War mentality - WW2 boys learn military training and girls learn nursing
- WW2 became the 'Great Patriotic War'
- Alexi Adzhudb editor of Isvenstiya magazine offering Khrushchev photography opportunities
- Brezchnev awarded himself at leadt a 100 awards (Lenin prize for literature). As he suffered a series of strokes a cult of personality was needed to give the impresson of leadership.
- 1980's tape recorder and computers made restrictions harder to control
- Social policies
- Nikita Paramnova (60 people on the same floor)
- 1933 law gave elders power with the secret police
- 1932 internal passports restrict workers movements - ineffective as even by 1939 30% of urban workers changed jobs each quarter of the year
- 1939- absenteeism a criminal offence that can warrant imprisonment
- 1977 constitution made full employment guaranteed prompted a rise in absenteeism
- Nikita Paramnova (60 people on the same floor)
- Relied on terror
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