Andropov - Control of the People Flashcards
1
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Aims
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Severely ill and often invisible to the public.
Sought to improve economy with current framework.
Sought to reduce political meddling.
2
Q
Methods
A
Tough discipline/punishment for lazy workers + incompetent/corrupt managers & bureaucrats.
Anti-Corruption - investigated senior Party officials- Brezhnev’s Minister of Interior (Nikolai Schelokov).
3
Q
Secret Police
A
Suppressed dissidents through emigration.
Dissidents sent to psychiatric institutions for “treatment”.
