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when did stalin die?
'53
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what did k's reforms threaten to reduce?
power of party officials
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what was politburo renamed?
presidium
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when?
'52
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what did presidium form post-stalin?
collective leadership
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who were main competition?
beria, malenkov and khrushchev
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who initially seemed in the lead?
beria
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when was an amnesty issued?
27th march '53
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how many criminals released?
1M, mainly shot
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when was beria arrested?
june '53
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why?
acc being british spy
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what happened to him?
executed
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what did presidium feel this was neccessary to restore?
socialist legality
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what was socialist legality?
the notion that the action of gov/party was subject to law
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mainly aimed at?
secret police
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when k appt first secretary?
september '53
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what did he use this position to do?
appt allies to presidium
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much like?
stalin
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what was central committee given more auth over?
both gov and party structures
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how many of those appointed to committee in '52 were removed?
almost half
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by when had khrushchev removed all opponents?
'56
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when did K feel confident enough to give secret speech?
'57
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at which party congress?
20th
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accusing stalin of?
creating a cult / acting like tyrant / using unneccessary terror / economic mistakes
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how did K want to rejuvinate soviets?
return to leninism
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what happened to presidium under destalinisation?
regular meetings and central committee resumed
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what did giving more power to regional organisations do?
decentralise decision making
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what did party and gov officials no longer face prison for?
not meeting targets
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who now controlled secret police?
party
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what did they lose control over?
labour camps
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how many political prisoners released?
2M
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between which years?
'53-'60
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what percent of those who'd appealed were returned by '55?
4%
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what did heavy punishment remain for?
corruption
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what could criticism of the party lead to?
internal exile / psychiatric hospital sentence
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what most controversial aspect of de-stalinisation?
moves to de-centralise decision making
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who power transferred from / to?
from central ministries to regional councils
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what did move threaten to reduce?
power of party leaders
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what did k call group that tried remove him?
anti-party group
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what year?
'57
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who led opp.?
malenkov and molotov
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what did they do?
convince presidium to ask for resignation
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what did K do?
demand it go to central committee as they appointed him
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what did they do?
reject the move
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what happened to molotov?
became ambassador to mongolia
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and malenkov?
in charge of electricity
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so neither could?
have enough power to cause a coup again
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diff between K and stalin?
didn't kill rivals
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when was Ks power enchanced?
march '58
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because?
became prime minister
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who Ks power subject?
central committee
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which party congress meant further reforms?
22nd
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what year?
'61
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whose body removed?
stalin's
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major purge of ?
local party secretaries
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what did k divide party into?
agricultural and industrial depts
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in?
'62
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what did this do?
reduce power of officials
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what did he limit lenghts serve to?
three years
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which could have?
made party more receptive to new ideas
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but threatened?
power and priveliges of officials
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when was K's downfall?
'64
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cuban missile crisis?
'62
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main reasons for downfall?
eco. mistakes / back down missile crisis / erratic behaviour
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year banged shoe @ UN meeting?
'60
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bad harvest year?
'63
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who removed him from office?
party
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who dismisse dhim in '64?
central committee
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who did his reforms make uneasy?
party bureaucrats
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what was removing K attempt to do?
preserve power
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what did K say about ability to be kicked out
"stalin would have had them shot"
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why did cuban missile crisis occur?
usa realised k was helping bild nuclear bases in cuba
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when did cuba become communist?
'59
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what did JFK do to island?
put in quarantine
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