high stalinism

Question 1

intro to high stalinism

Answer 1

-refers to period post 1945
-cult of personality at unimaginable levels
-presented himself as sole victor of ww2
-renewed terror began to take shape

Question 2

dictatorship, high stalinism

Answer 2

-after ww2, number of key players in victory exiled and removed from positions of power
-military leader (Zhukov) was exiled to ukraine in June 1945
-at institutional level, did not allow central committee or politburo to meet (1947-52)

Question 3

renewed terror high stalinism

Answer 3

-stalins paranoia increased
-NKVD under Beria initiated new terror
-captured soviet POW’s and treated them harshly
-feared ideological containation
-1952: 2.5m in labour camps

Question 4

cultural purge and Leningrad affair under KNVD and Beria

Answer 4

-cutural purge
-tightening of political position through art and culture
-more censorship
-1946:Zhdanov became commissar and responsible for imposing artistic conformity
-distinct soviet art and culture began
-not dissimilar from socialist realism

leningrad affair
-began in 1949
-great purge of party officials in leningrad
-lead to deaths of around 100 and imprisonment of over 2k

Question 5

doctors plot

Answer 5

-increase in antisemitism
-always been part of ussr
-jan 1953, Pravda announced foiling of doctors plot
-claim that jewish dominated medical centre in Moscow plotting to kill stalin