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Control of the People
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- 1What was the cult of Lenin?he was the personification of Communism
- 2When did terror against Islam increase under Lenin?1920
- 3Give an example of terror against the Russian Orhtodox Chruch under Lenin?January 1918 massacre of priests in Moscow
- 4When was the Living Church created?1923
- 5When did Lenin outlaw all non Socialist papers and how many were closed down by 1921?1918, 2000
- 6When was the Revolutionary Trivunal of the Press set up and why?1918, censor press and imprison journalists
- 7When was the Decree on the Press passed and what did it allow?1917, emergency power to close papers that didn't support the revolution
- 8Name a movie made under Lenin to boost Communist support (1920s)Battleship Potemkin
- 9Who did the secret police persecute under Lenin?jazz dancers and people wearing western clothes
- 10Give to examples of terror under LeninRed Terror and Cheka
- 11What was Stalin's cult of personality?Myth of Two Leaders and he was said to be Lenin's natural heir
- 12What attacks did Stalin make on muslims?by 1936, Sufi Muslims were eliminated from Turkestan
- 13What happened to Stalin's treatment of religion in WW2?he realised it could inspire people, so reopened 414 churches and promised to end censorship
- 14How did Stalin use the media?hid failures by banning all bad news and promoted successes
- 15What did the Glavit control by 1928?media access to economic data
- 16How did Stalin use art?he created Socialist Realism in 1932 (depict socialist versions of reality) and used it to promote his policies
- 17Give an example of Stalin using terrorGreat Terror
- 18What was Khrushchev's cult of personality?he was Lenin's disciple and responsible for Russia's successes
- 19When did Khrushchev's cult of personality become laughable and why?1960s, he failed
- 20What did Khrushchev do against religion?1958 anti religion campaign, targeted women
- 21Why was Khrushchev successful against religion?there were 3000 orthodox churches less in 1964 than in 1958
- 22What did Khrushchev do to the media?allowed popular publications even if they were critical, used TV to celebrate the people rather than himself, the KGB controlled political publications, no foreign publications
- 23How did Khrushchev control culture?thaws and freezes, allowed intellectuals to criticise Stalin, allowed American and European classical works to be taught in school
- 24How did Khrushchev use terror?allowed debate, secret police, forced opponents to get psychiatric treatment
- 25What was Brezhnev's cult of personality and why did it fail?he was the successor of Lenin, but he had never met him
- 26What was Brezhnev's treatment of religion?stopped closing churches and ended propaganda against religion, opened Institute for Scientific Atheism in 1968
- 27Why did Brezhnev's promotion of atheism not work?the number of religious people remained at 20%
- 28How did Brezhnev control media?he lost control of print media as western magazines like Vogue became popular, at first he controlled TV footage and didn't show bad things like the war in Afghanistan, but in the 70s he was unable to stop the TV from showing he was ill and weak
- 29What style did Brezhnev promote?nostalgia
- 30What was KGB order number 0051?increased surveillance and authorities could act against opposition (public trials of artists in the mid 60s)
- 31How did Andropov increase discipline in the KGB?sacked them if their relatives broke the law, which made them more efficient
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