Nature of government 6 Flashcards
Repression (censorship) (15 cards)
what policy did Alexander II introduce?
glasnost
when was Censorship relaxed?
186, but the government could still withdraw books once they had been published
what was the name of the newspaper published under Alexander II?
Ruskii
how many books were published in 1864?
1836
when was the first Russian translation of Marx’s Das Kapital published?
18722
how much dd the number of periodicals increase from 1900-1914?
three-fold
how many books were published in 1894?
10691
what was the name of one of the newspapers for the proletariat? what was its circulation?
the Kopek, circulation of 25000
when was the agitation and propaganda department set up?
1921
what buildings were put under surveillance under Lenin?
libraries, schools, cinemas
what did all soviet writers have to belong to under Stalin?
the union of soviet writers
what were writers under Stalin forced to produce?
socialist realism material which depicted ordinary people overcoming capitalist oppression
when were 15 writers put on trial for treason under Stalin? what happened to them?
August 1952, 13 were executed
how many people read a daily newspaper under Khrushchev?
60 million
how many books were made in 1959?
145
