Khrushchev - Culture 1953-1964

Question 1

What socialist campaign was revived?

Answer 1

Against the church

Question 2

What was made illegal to teach school children in 1961?

Answer 2

Religion

Question 3

What subject was introduced into the school curriculum?

Answer 3

Atheism - a course on the ‘foundations of scientific atheism’

Question 4

What was there a mass closure of?

Answer 4

Seminary schools, orthodox churches, monasteries

Question 5

What was ‘the Thaw’?

Answer 5

A relaxation of culture and censorship - a result of destalinisation

Question 6

What restrictions were lifted?

Answer 6

• foreign radio
• foreign literature
• international tourism ‘Intourist’

Question 7

What culture was allowed?

Answer 7

That denounced Stalin and did not criticise Marxist-Leninism

Question 8

Which previously denounced cultural artists were pardoned?

Answer 8

• Shostakovich
• Akhmatova

Question 9

What was published in 1962 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn?

Answer 9

One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich

Question 10

What book was banned?

Answer 10

Pasternak’s Dr Zhivago

Question 11

When was Dr Zhivago published? Where?

Answer 11

1957 in Italy

Question 12

What happened to Boris Pasternak?

Answer 12

Expelled from the Soviet Union of Writers

Question 13

What does Tamizdat mean?

Answer 13

Illegally publishing works abroad

Question 14

What does Samizdat mean?

Answer 14

Illegally transcribing banned works

Question 15

Who was there a statue built of in 1958?

Answer 15

Mayakovsky

Question 16

What did the Mayakovsy square spark?

Answer 16

Groups of poetry readings

Question 17

What happened to some of the poetry groups in 1961?

Answer 17

They were arrested for subversive political activity

Question 18

How many were arrested for living an ‘anti-social’ and parasitic way of life?

Answer 18

130,000

Question 19

Where were people sent for subverting politics?

Answer 19

Labour camps or mental hospitals

Question 20

What is magnitizdat?

Answer 20

Illegal tape recordings of music

Question 21

What did the underground song ‘Moscow Kitchens’ mean?

Answer 21

Political subversion occurred in the capital

Question 22

Who defected in Paris, in 1961?

Answer 22

Rudolf Nureyev

Question 23

When was the World Youth Festival?

Answer 23

1957

Question 24

Where was and how many attended the World Youth Festival?

Answer 24

Moscow, 34,000

Question 25

What did the 1961 survey reveal?

Answer 25

Majority of young people were sceptical about the October Revolution