Chapter 20- political authority 1945-53

Question 1

what satellite states had Russia established by 1949

Answer 1

Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Eastern Germany

Question 2

why did Stalin see the party as unreliable after the war

Answer 2

too many people had been allowed to join during the war

Question 3

how was the military hierarchy downgraded after the war

Answer 3

stalin took role of Minister of Defence

high-ranking officers sent to inferior posts (Zhukov)

Question 4

what position did Zhdanov take from Malenkov and how

Answer 4

Party secretary

challenged challenged his policies of moving industrial plants from Germany to Russia

Question 5

who became Stalins closest advisor

Answer 5

Zhdanov

Question 6

what did the central committee establish in 1946 that appeared to take power away from Stalin slightly

Answer 6

new politburo, secretariat, ogburo

Question 7

how many party congresses were held between 1939-52

Answer 7

none (should have been 4)

Question 8

what was the politburo reduced to in 1946

Answer 8

and advisory body that had too wait on instructions from Stalin

Question 9

how many members did the party have in 1952

Answer 9

7 million

Question 10

what was the name of the cultural purge launched in 1946

Answer 10

Zhdanovshchina

Question 11

what are examples of victims of the zhdanovshchina

Answer 11

Mikhail Zoschenko’s the adventures of a monkey

Anna Akhmatova’s poetry

Boris pastermak’s poetry

Dmitry Shostakovich

Question 12

what did a law in February 1947 outlaw

Answer 12

marriage to a foreigner

Question 13

what was the NKVD split into in 1941

Answer 13

MVD- Ministry of Internal Affairs

MGB- Ministry of State Security

Question 14

how many wartime survivors were sent to labour camps asa result of the Zhdanovshchina

Answer 14

12 million

Question 15

what was the Leningrad case

Answer 15

false evidence used to arrest and later execute several leading members of the Leningrad party including members such as the leader of the Gosplan and Politburo members such as Voznesensky

Question 16

what was the rise in anti-semitism due to

Answer 16

Israel being pro-USA

Israeli ambassador for USSR Golda Meir being greeted by cheering jews

Question 17

what are examples of anti-semitism post war

Answer 17

the director of the Jewish theatre in Moscow Solomon Mikhails being mysteriously killed in a ‘car accident’

the jewish wives of politburo members Molotov and Kalinin being arrested

Question 18

what was the Mingrelian case

Answer 18

purge in Georgia in 1951 accusing the followers of Lavrenti Beria. thought to have been done out of anti-semitism and to weaken authority of Beria

Question 19

what was thew doctors plot

Answer 19

Lydia Timashuk alerted Stalin to 9 doctors not handling Zhdanov’s health correctly in 1948

Stalin reopened case in 1951 and said doctors were part of zionist conspiracy to kill soviet leaders and had infiltrated the Leningrad party, MGB and red army

thousands of jews deported many non-jews scared to go into hospitals

9 doctors sentenced to execution

Question 20

what increased Stalin’s paranoia in 1946

Answer 20

minor stroke

Question 21

what did a 1948 biography show Stalin as

Answer 21

a modern day Lenin and leading marxist theorist

Question 22

what were Stalin prizes

Answer 22

Russian version of Nobel prizes