Interpretation 3 Flashcards
Khrushchev (33 cards)
when was Stalingrad renamed? to what?
1961 to Volgograd
how many political prisoners were left in the gulags by 1960?
11,000
who ran the KGB? What did this mean?
it was run by the Politburo, which meant that it would be more difficult for the Terror to happen again
how many books were published a year by late 1950’s?
65,000
how many people read newspapers by the 1960’s?
60 million
how many cinemas were there by 1959?
59,000
how many were executed in food riots at Novocherkassk? When?
23, 1963
how many were killed in the Hungarian uprising?
3000
what did destalinisation cause?
Polish crisis
what was Khrushchev forced to do in the Polish crisis?
to make Gomulka prime minister to appease demonstrators
when was Beria executed?
december 1953
what were the 6th and 7th 5 year plan focussed on?
consumer goods
how many people owned a washing machine by 1964?
1 in 77
how many people owned a fridge by 1964?
1 in 25
how many million acres were used for wheat production in 1950?
90 million
how many million acres were used for wheat production by 1964?
165 million acres
when were school fees abolished?
1956
when was abortion legalised?
1955
how long was the working day
7 hours
how many new appartments were built?
108 million
what happened with the 6th five year plan?
it was abandoned after 2 years
why did the virgin land campaign fail?
poor quality fertiliser was used and there was no crop rotation.
The Aral sea dried up
what did the 5th five year plan aim to do?
build Hydroelectric damns. lots of money was wasted
when did the USSR create the first ICBM?
1957
