Khrushchev

Question 1

What was the collective leadership

Answer 1

Included Molotov, Melonkov, Krushchev, voloshilov, and Beria

Question 2

In the collective leadership what was the fierce power struggle

Answer 2

They decided to quickly cut down the size of the Presadium down to 10

Question 3

What was Malenkov position 

Answer 3

He was Prime minister

Question 4

what was Beria position

Answer 4

Minister of interior and head of secret police

Question 5

What was Molotov position

Answer 5

He was Foreign minister

Question 6

What was voroshilov position

Answer 6

Head of state

Question 7

krushChev position

Answer 7

First party secretary

Question 8

Why did Chev different from the rest of the collective leadership

Answer 8

He didn’t have a top government role but he was the only member to be part of the Secretariat and pres.

Question 9

Barrier makes an early running

Answer 9

From Stalin’s death bed ranacked Stalin’s office found evidence of his colleagues Foibles

Question 10

Why was Barrier Disliked

Answer 10

He was head of the secret police and feared

Question 11

What was berries reform programme

Answer 11

Amnesty of prisoners

Question 12

Cultural dissident under Khrushchev cultural thaw

Answer 12

The ability of writers and artist to criticise was eliminated through heavy censorship .The cultural thaw under Khrushchev allowed a new group of cultural dissidents to emerge

Question 13

Underground network of writers and artists

Answer 13

Florish in underground networks to reproduce and share works which are expressed their political views

Question 14

Examples of artistes

Answer 14

Grossman

Question 15

Contents of cultural output

Answer 15

Focused on desire for greater democracy promotion of human rights and rights of ethnic and national minorities

Question 16

Dr zhivago

Answer 16

Dr zhivago
Which was published in Italy and brought into the USSR aided by the CIA who was hoping to undermine the Communist regime

Question 17

Samizdat

Answer 17

Printing and copying illegal books , poems and magazines often manually typed up or produced on illegal printing presses

Question 18

Young society of geniuses

Answer 18

Group of students who produced a journal which published poetry

Question 19

1958 statue to Vladimir Mayakovsky

Answer 19

Commissioned by the government was unveiled in Moscow it was a satirical poet who had criticised the Stalinist Regime. Its sparked number of spontaneous poetry readings which had became slightly more critical of the current Soviet regime

Question 20

1961 kgb

Answer 20

13,000 people were identified as leading an antosical parasitic way of life -band from being employed as well as sent to labour camps

Question 21

Music and ballet

Answer 21

Wanting more access to western music
Rudolph was USSR the most prestigious male ballet he was known to have nonconformist political views and the KGB were against allowing him to talk overseas but in 1961 he was allowed to travel to Paris

Question 22

Art

Answer 22

Manezh art exhibition, in 1962 and was especially critical of modern Art which he had Felt had no contribution to building a Soviet society

Question 23

The regimes response to cultural dissidents: Secret police operation

Answer 23

The extremes of starlins Terror had been reduced there was still thousands of informers working for the KGB actively banned from being employed by the state and were sent to labour camps

Question 24

The resume had not abandoned its intent to influence the cultural output of the USSR

Answer 24

The hard-liners of Presidiym Able to bring out tighter controls

Question 25

Khrushchev faced opposition from Within the communist party

Answer 25

The hard-liners were horrified by Khrushchev secret speech in 1956 which criticised the regime, pointing out the radical criticism of the regime which cruiseship speech has inspired q

Question 26

Anti party group

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1957 was coordinated by the hard-line opponants of Krushchev but I was able to support this attempt to remove him by using support from zhukov and red army 

Question 27

Anti party- Molotov

Answer 27

demoted to being ambassador of Mongolia

Question 28

Reorganisation for the economy Under Khrushchev

Answer 28

It was politically motivated byDecentralising control over the economy and giving more power to local regions hoping to undermine State ministries in Moscow who were loyal to the Stalinist hard-liners During the command economy

Question 29

One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich

Answer 29

Personally ordered the publication as he felt he would undermine the hard-liners were more associated with terror and labour camps of the period

Question 30

How did that how did the hard-liners respond to the publication of one day in the life of Ivan

Answer 30

Be prevented the publication after 1962 and pointed to the danger level of dissidents that Khrushchev thaw had created

Question 31

How did Khrushchev’s personality undermined support within the party

Answer 31

He was impulsive unpredictable and occasionally explosive and had a habit of insulting colleagues with whom he disagreed

Question 32

What did the group that disposed Khrushchev in October accuse him of what

Answer 32

Arrogance and harebrained scheming in other words implementing several ideas but not thinking them through sufficiently are planning them properly

Question 33

United Nations General assembly 1960

Answer 33

Where he banged his shoe on the table which many colleagues felt humiliated the USSR on the international stage

Question 34

The Cuban missile crisis

Answer 34

Khrushchev intended to use the recent Communist revolution in Cuba to the USSR’s advantage by placing nuclear weapons on the island which was only 90 miles from the US coast

Question 35

President Kennedy’s response to the Cuban missile crisis

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Responded by placing a naval blockade around Cuba and threatening war if any more missiles were to be delivered

Question 36

Kennedy and Khrushchev Deal

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Which saw the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba and of American missiles in Turkey however this deal was kept a secret and I was the world it was Kennedy who was seen as victor

Question 37

What did Khrushchev do at the Kennedy threat

Answer 37

Khrushchev backed off and made a deal

Question 38

Agricultural failures

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The failure of the Virgin land scheme and the shortage of grain Soviet union having to import from US and Canada

Question 39

I was the virgin land scheme humiliation to Khrushchev

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 are great humiliation for a leader who are promoting himself as an agricultural expert and would claim that virgin LS with solution to the USSR’s food supply problems the 1963 HiHarvest was the poorest

Question 40

Style of leadership and opposition within the military: One man style of rule

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Was accused of not listening to advice and impulsive decision making and harebrained schemes caused opposition to increase

Question 41

Opposition within the military

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Military leaders presented cuts to conventional military spending which had been diverted instead to the USSR’s nuclear weapons program

Question 42

The USSR’s reliance on nuclear weapons

Answer 42

Was undermined by Cuban missile crisis which Khrushchev’s opponents in the military used against him

Question 43

Reorganisation of the Bureaucracy. What did he do to the presidium between 1956 and 61

Answer 43

Replaced over 2/3 of the presidium

Question 44

1961 reorganisation of the bureaucracy

Answer 44

Limited to 3 the number of times leading officials could be elected to the same office at each election he also insisted that a quarter of the Central committee and president be replaced

Question 45

Khrushchev’s policy of the decentralisation

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Giving more responsibility to local party Leaders and regional economic councils upset those in central government who had lost some of the authority

Question 46

Parallel hierarchies

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Had divided the party into two parallel hierarchies when responsible for industry I want other for agriculture

Question 47

October 1964

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Khrushchev was on holiday in Georgia when he received a telephone call from Brehznev Summoning him to Moscow for an emergency meeting of the presidential Red Cross chair was attacked on a number of accounts and forced to resign denied access to the media preventing him from raising support 

Question 48

Khrushchev’s resignation to the public

Answer 48

Announced to the public that he had resigned due to advanced age and ill health

Question 49

Pradva Fall of Khrushchev

Answer 49

Denounce Khrushchev for his harebrained schemes Half Baked conclusions hasty decisions

Question 50

Why was Khrushchev not shot

Answer 50

He was not shot but was allowed to retire and claim a pension

Question 51

What are the four types of opposition under krushchev

Answer 51

Cultural dissidents Communist divisions hard-liners and reformers opponents of Khrushchev