Andropov's Suppression of Dissidents, 1967-82

Question 1

1. What year did Brezhnev promote Andropov to head the KGB?
2. What was Brezhnev’s new leadership suspicious of?
3. Andropov was __________, and suspicious of ___________.

Answer 1

2. Cultural freedom.
3. Conservative, liberalisation.

Question 2

1. What was Andropov’s goal as KGB head?
2. What was his strategy for doing this?
   - Therefore, there was no return to what?
3. What was Andropov also keen to expose and prosecute?
4. How did Brezhnev feel about this agenda?

Answer 2

1. Control dissidents.
2. Maximum control through minimum violence.
   - Mass terror.
3. Corruption in the Communist Party.
4. Less sympathetic.