Krushcehv

Question 1

Who were the 5 man leadership when Khrushchev took power

Answer 1

Malenkov
Beria
Molotov
Voroshilov
Krushchev

Question 2

By how much did Khrushchev exceed his quotas in the great terror

Answer 2

6,305 in arrests
3,500 in killed

Question 3

What was the period of 1953-1956 called

Answer 3

Silent de-Stalinisation

Question 4

When did Khrushchev propose to put a commission to look into Stalin’s activities

Answer 4

December 1955

Question 5

What was Khrushchev’s reaction to politburo members knowing about Stalin fabricating confessions

Answer 5

“We’ve got to have the courage to tell the truth”

Question 6

What was Mao Zedong’s reaction to de-Stalinisation

Answer 6

Denounced Khrushchev as a “revisionist”

Question 7

What did Moscow university students do in reaction to Khrushchev

Answer 7

Students boycotted the canteen notorious for its bad food
in a semi intentional enactment of battleship Potemkin

Question 8

What was Stalin condemned as

Answer 8

“Enemy of the people”

Question 9

In the three years preceding the secret speech how many political prisoners were rehabilitated

Answer 9

7,000

Question 10

In the three years following the secret speech how many political prisoners were rehabilitated

Answer 10

617,000

Question 11

When was the Hungarian uprising

Answer 11

October 1956

Question 12

What was the Warsaw pact

Answer 12

A military alliance of East European communist states in 1955

Question 13

What did Zhukov become like after the defeat of the anti party group

Answer 13

Assertive
Big reputation
Big ego

Question 14

What did Khrushchev do to Zhukov

Answer 14

Removed him from his positions in the presidium and central comitee

Question 15

What had the unrest in Poland and Hungary been used to argue

Answer 15

That Khrushchev’s “secret speech” had undermined credibility unity and strength of the international communist movement

Question 16

When was Khrushchev outvoted 7 to 4

Answer 16

June 1957

Question 17

Who said in the 22nd party congress that Lenin said in her dream that and said that she didn’t like lying beside Stalin

Answer 17

77 year old
Lazurkina

Question 18

What were the results of the 22nd party congress

Answer 18

Stalin’s mummified body was removed from the Lenin Mausoleum

Places named after Stalin were renamed
-Stalingrad became Volgograd
-Stalino became Donetsk

Monuments of stalin were destroyed

Khrushchev proposed that a memorial for Stalin’s victims be built in Moscow

Question 19

What was the state of Soviet agriculture in 1953

Answer 19

Productivity was too low

Terms like “Biological yield” for grain harvest were used to hide realities

Livestock numbers were comparatively low to previously and numbers of cows were falling

Question 20

What was the Virgin lands campaign

Answer 20

Huge operation designed to plough up a vast tract of virgin land in Kazakhsatn,Urals and Siberia for grain cultivation

Question 21

How many Komsomol volunteers were mobilised to cultivate this area

Answer 21

More than 300,000 Komsomol volunteers

Question 22

By 1956 how many million acres of land was cultivated

Answer 22

35.9 million acres by 1956

Area equal to size of Canada

Question 23

What were conditions like in the virgin lands scheme

Answer 23

Conditions were primitive and harsh
-ran like a military campaign with an emphasis on speed

Question 24

What was the grain harvest in 1956

Answer 24

125 million tons of grain
-Over half was from the new regions

Question 25

By 1963 what was the virgin lands scheme harvest like

Answer 25

Grain harvest was disastrous and Virgin lands scheme produced their smallest scheme for years

Question 26

What did Khrushchev say about corn

Answer 26

"Corn can produce high yields in all areas of our country" "Corn is unequalled by nay other crop"

Question 27

Out of 85 million acres that were planted how much was harvested ripe

Answer 27

1/6

Question 28

What did Krushchev claim regarding the USA

Answer 28

That the USSR would catch up with the USA in per capita meat output by 1960

Question 29

When was the 7 year plan

Answer 29

1959-65

Question 30

What was there a large investment in the 7 year plan

Answer 30

Oil and natural gas

Question 31

When was the first succesful test of an inter continental ballistic missile carried out

Answer 31

August 1957

Question 32

What was the first satellite in space called

Answer 32

Sputnik

Question 33

Who was the first man in space

Answer 33

Yuri Gagarin

Question 34

When did Yuri Gagarin become the first man in space

Answer 34

1961

Question 35

Between 1954-55 how many enterprises were transferred from central to republican control

Answer 35

11,000

Question 36

In May 1957 how many regional economic councils were established to take place of the central economic ministeries

Answer 36

105

Question 37

What did Krushchev prioritise regarding social change

Answer 37

the "good of the people"

Question 38

What was the new party programme described as

Answer 38

remarkable combination of self delusion, wishful thinking and utopianism

Question 39

What are 3 claims from the new party programme

Answer 39

A communist society will almost be complete by 1980 By 1970 there will be no housing shortage and the shortage and the Soviet union will have overtaken the USA in per capita production By the 1980- the real income per head will have increased by more than 250%

Question 40

Between 1956 and 1965 approximately how many people moved into new apartments

Answer 40

108 million people moved into new apartments

Question 41

What was the housing like

Answer 41

Poor quality but made a real change in peoples lives

Question 42

In Krushchevs time in power how much did the people in higher education increase by

Answer 42

Almost trebled

Question 43

After the editor of the Novy Mir asked party bosses for permission to write a little bit of "truth about the realities in the country What was the response

Answer 43

"Literature must stay completely at the service of the party"

Question 44

In 1956 which novel did Boris Pasternack offer the manuscript of to Novy Mir

Answer 44

Dr Zhivago

Question 45

Why was Dr Zhivago rejected

Answer 45

Felt that novel was against the revolution and that it portrayed the Soviet state in a very negative light

Question 46

When and where was DR zhivago published

Answer 46

Italy in 1957 and 1958 and Pasternack was awarded the Nobel prize of literatuure for it

Question 47

What happened following Zhivago receiving the Nobel prize for literature

Answer 47

Illegal copies circulated the USSR the CIA gave out copies to Soviet visitors in the Brussels universal and international exposition in 1958

Question 48

How many copies of one day in the life of Ivan Denisovich were published in its first 6 months

Answer 48

1 Million

Question 49

What was in one day in the life of Ivan Denisovich

Answer 49

detailed the life of what it was like in the Gulags

Question 50

What impact did One day in he life of Ivan Denisovich do

Answer 50

resonated with former inmates, these had never been mentioned before

Question 51

What was the name of a small Russian town that had an uprising

Answer 51

Novocherkassk

Question 52

When was the Novocherkassk uprising

Answer 52

1st June 1962

Question 53

What was the result of the Cuban missile crisis

Answer 53

USA promised to never invade Cuba however this news was secret so Russia was publicly humbled

Question 54

When was the MTS abolished

Answer 54

1958

Question 55

What did Krushchev reduce the size of and what was the result

Answer 55

restricted size of private plots Put pressure on peasants to sell their cows to the public

Question 56

What did Krushchev leave out of the secret speech

Answer 56

No criticism of Marxism-Leninism No criticism of Stalin before 1934 Ignores sufferings of non party members before the war

Question 57

What did Beria do following Stalins death

Answer 57

Beria rushed to Stalins safe -feared and disliked by other leader

Question 58

What was Beria blamed for

Answer 58

Rising in East Berlin -Helped Krushchev gain support

Question 59

What happened to Beria

Answer 59

Beria denounced in Pravda Accused of being a British agent for 30 years Killed secretly after being in custody for 6 months