NOG -Use of repression
pink -A2
red - A3
orange - N2
yellow - PG
green - Lenin
l blue - Stalin
d blue - Khrushchev
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- Created on: 02-02-21 16:50
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- Use of repression
- All Russian rulers used repression and the secret police to some extent, particularly against political opponents.
- Under the Tsars repression was used to maintain autocracy and deal with growing opposition associated with greater industrialisation, with a varying degree of success.
- Some events reflect this dynamic, such as Alexander III’s use of repression after his father’s death.
- Communist rulers also used repression but to a larger extent,
- inparticular, at the start of both Lenin’s and Stalin’s reign, in order to quell sizeable opposition to their regime.
- Communists were able to justify widespread repression because the definition of a ‘counter-revolutionary’ was so broad, and could implement it fully,
- because they were inheriting a more powerful state than under the Tsars, especially Stalin.
- the PG disbanded the Okhrana, a decision which would contribute totheir future downfall,
- and reflects the necessity of repression as a ruling strategy for all other rulers.
- Khrushchev was also less repressive than his predecessor Stalin,
- which could be ideological decision, or reflect the lack of popularopposition to the regime.
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