USSR ; gov ; ext. nature party rule post stalin ; khrushchev reforms + destalinisation

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THE SUCCESSION
DGJD
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in what year did stalin die?
'53
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when was the poliburo renamed?
'52
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what did they form after stalin died?
collective leadership
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who were the three main players?
beria / malenkov / khrushchev
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initially who seemed in the lead?
beria
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what did beria move quickly to do to reduce worry rivals?
reduce terror
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on what exact date was an amnesty issued?
27th march '53
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which released how many prisoners?
1million
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releasing mainly who from labour camps?
criminals on short sentences
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what plot was denounced as false?
doctors plot
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and who was released?
kremlin doctors arrested by stalin
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when was beria arrested (month)?
june
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for what?
accused of being a british spy
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and what happened to him?
executed
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was this legal?
no
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but the presidium felt it neccessary to restore?
socialist legality
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socialist legality was the principle that?
the government and party act within the law
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in what month did khrushchev become the leader of the party?
september
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and what was his official title?
first secretary
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he used his position to place allies where?
in the presidium
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also paid particular attention to composition of which group?
central committee
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given more authority over?
both gov and party structures
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almost how many of those elected to central committee in '52 were removed?
1/2
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and most new members were supporters?
of khrushche
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in this way khrushchev had outmanouvered opps by which year?
1956
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'SECRET SPEECH' AND DE-STALINISATION
DFGD
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when (y) was the secret speech?
'56
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given at which party congress?
20th
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party members shocked to hear khrushchev accuse stalin of developing?
cult of personality
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acting a s a?
tyrant
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using what unneccessarily?
terror
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and making what kind of mistakes?
economic
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but glossed over what fact about politburp?
comprised of party memers that rose through ranks by implementing stalin's policies
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key features of destalinisation included reguar meeting of which two groups resumed?
presidium and central committee
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moves made to decentralise decision-making by giving more power to who?
organisations at regoinal level
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what did party + gov officials no longer face prison for what?
failing 2 meet targets
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who were brought firmly under party control?
secret police
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so could no longer be used by an individual to do what?
further own interests
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secret police lost control over what?
labour camps
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how many political prisoners released from camps between '53-'60?
2million
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but process slow and what % those that appealed for release on political grounds had actually been returned to civilian life by '55?
4%
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heavy punishments still remained for which offence?
corruption and criticism outside party leadership boundaries
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and this could result in which two things?
internal exile / removal to psychiatric hospital
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population also aware secret police had more sophisticated methods of?
surveillance
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CRISIS OF '57
DFGFG
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what was most contentious aspect of de-stalinisation?
decentralisation decision-making
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powers to be transferred from central ministeries to where?
regional councils
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this move threatened to remove whose powers?
party leaders
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in '57 what did this result in?
attempted coup
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from which later named group?
'anti-party group'
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which two ppl led this?
malenkov and molotov
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who persuaded presidium to do what?
ask khrushchev for his resignation
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who did khrushchev argue for issue to go to?
central committee
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why?
they appointed him therefore they were the only ppl to remove him
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why did central committee reject this?
bc he'd filled it with his allies
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therefore following stalin's pattern of doing what?
using powers as first secretary to secure position
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however punishment differed as what happened to molotov?
he became ambassador to mongolia
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and malenkov put in charge fo?
electricity
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in what month and ear was khrushchev's power enhanced?
march 1958
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when what happened?
he became PM a.w.a 1st secretary
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but still hwo was all knrushchev;s power subject ot?
central committee
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and what as common inside the party?
debate
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KHRUSHCHEV'S REFORMS OF THE PARTY
GHF
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further reforms emerged at which party congress?
'22nd
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in which year?
'61
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stalin's body was removed frim where?
lenin's mausoleum in red square
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who was theree a major purge of?
local party secretaries
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what did khrushchev divide party into?
agricultural and industrial departments
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in which year?
'62
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which did what to party officials?
reduced their power
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what did khrushchev also introduce a limit to?
length party officials could serve in-post
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to how many years?
3
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which positively did what?
made party more responsive to new ideas
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but mainly was a serious threat to whta?
power and privileges of party officials
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this resentment played an important part in what?
khrushchev's downfall
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DOWNFALL OF KHRUSHCHEV
JIHIHI
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year?
'64
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did economic mistakes factor into khrushchev's downfall?
yes
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also his humiliating back-down in which standoff?
cuban missile crisis
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in which year?
'62
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and what kind of behaviour?
erratic and unpredicatble
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what did his conduct often depend on?
mood
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what weird thing did he do at a UN meating debte?
bang his shoe repeatedly on a desk
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in which year?
'60
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his economic failures came to a head in a disastrous harvest of whcich uear?
'63
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but in the end it was what that removed him from office?
the Party
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in '64 who decided to dismiss him?
central committee (HIS BROS DOE!!!)
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what made the bureaucrats uneasy about khrushchev?
the reforms
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so removing him was an attempt to do what?
preserve power
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but what was the fact he could be sacked and retired a sign of?
his successes in destalinisation (aw how cute!)
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what did khrushchev himself say bout this?
'stalin would have had them shot'
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