Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Russian Recvery after WW2 (part 2)
- Post-war purges
- Stalin was still paranoid+ suspicious
- 1949: Wide-range purging of Leningrad party
- Carried out by Beria's secret police
- Thousands of arrests
including: Voznesensky
(head of GOSPLAN) and
Kuzntesov (secretary of
committee in charge of
secret police)
- Beria+ Malenkov used
1949 purging to get rid
of rivals
- Campaign against 'Bourgeoisis"
- 1951: Mingrelian Case
- Mingrelia= birthplace in
Georgia of Beria
- Stalin thought Beria was too
powerful so arrested
high-ranking Mingrelians
- Marshal Zhukov :gained
good reputation in the
war
- Demoted from
military and removed
from committee and
Moscow
- Anti-semitism
- 1952: Stalin ordered
Kagonovitch (a jew) to
prepare a list of Jews to
resettle in Jewish
republic of Birobidzhan
- 1953: 'Doctor's Plot' announced in a Moscow hospital
- Most arrested were Jewish
- Led to attacks on Jews by Russians
- Stalin's Death
- March 1953: Stalin collapsed at his dacha (countryside
home) from a heart attack
- Declared dead on 5th March