repression Flashcards
system of government (11 cards)
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Stolypin and dealing with peasant opposition
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- Stolypin’s neckties - immediate trials after being arrested
- however did not reduce opposition and just angered people 1
2
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The Okhrana and work of Plehve
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- powers of Okhrana enhanced in 1880s to counter the growth of political pressure groups and parties
- Alex III used the Okhrana as a tool for spying on, arresting, and exiling opposition
- Plehve served as the director of the police from 1881 to 1884
3
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The Cheka 1917
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- established by the Sovnarkom to ensure obedience of troops during civil war and to remove ‘counter-revolutionary’ influence.
- acted as a paramilitary group.
- instigated ‘Red Terror’
4
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1922- state repression
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- Lenin replaced the Cheka with State Political Administration (GPU)
5
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1924- state repression
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- the GPU became the OGPU after creation of USSR
6
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1934- state repression
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- NKVD set up by Stalin
- ‘permanent terror’
- responsible for the worst violence / terror and Great Purges - 600,000 to 3,000,000 deaths
7
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1943- state repression
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- NKVD replaced by the NKGB which had a particular focus on opposition from minorities
8
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1954 - state repression
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- NKGB scrapped by Khrushchev but retained KGB.
9
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Shakhty show trial 1928
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- Stalin’s determination to find a scape goat for the chaos caused by his own economic policies
- 53 engineers at the Shakhty coal mine in the northern Caucasus were accused of ‘counter revolutionary activity’ after there was a decline in production there.
- they were given a show trial in which they were forced to confess
- 5 executed, 44 received long sentences.
10
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how did Stalin use terror as a tool?
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- used terror to enforce control through the form of purges and violent suppression of anybody he deemed a threat beginning in 1934.
- these did not focus on political opponents, but colleagues and party members were also targets
11
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Murder of Kirov 1934
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