RUSSIA: T3 Control of the people Flashcards
(24 cards)
When was Solzhenitsyn’s “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” published in the USSR?
1961
What % of peasant households were Kulaks during the 1920s?
4%
How many died during Stalin’s purges?
Robert Conquest says “no less than 13-15m”
How many died in the Red Terror?
200,000
Stalin’s description of artists
“engineers of the soul”
Volkogonov’s description of impact of Red Terror
“the people grew accustomed to violence… by the state in the name of a bright future”
Stalin’s targets for terror
“anyone who by his actions or thoughts assails the unity of the state”
Stalin’s phrase describing intensifying opposition resulting from intensifying communism
“sharpening class struggle”
Diagnosis of dissidents held in psychiatric detainment
“sluggish schizophrenia”
Lissitsky’s Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge
Constructivist poster depicting the Red Army as a geometric shape (wedge), uses colour and shape to convey a message
Constructivist poster depicting the Red Army as a geometric shape (wedge), uses colour and shape to convey a message
Lissitsky’s Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge
Avant-garde proletkult film with no narrative and themes of machinery and electrification, criticised by Lenin for being too radical
Vertov’s film Man with a Movie Camera
What did Molotov, Stalin’s foreign secretary, do to his wife?
denounced her to avoid persecution, she was imprisoned
“extraordinary commission”
Part of CHEKA acronym: describes its” “one-off” nature
Part of CHEKA acronym: describes its” “one-off” nature
“extraordinary commission”
How many people went through the Gulag system?
18m people (10% of the population)
Anna Akhmatova’s quote on changes to arrests under Khrushchev
“people no longer arrested for nothing… now for something”
Khrushchev-era “popular oversight” poster depicting a drunk slumped in his own sick
“The Alcoholic” poster (1959)
“The Alcoholic” poster (1959)
Khrushchev-era “popular oversight” poster depicting a drunk slumped in his own sick
Brezhnev-era film on the glory and triumph of WW2
“Liberation” film 1970
“Liberation” film 1970
Brezhnev-era film on the glory and triumph of WW2
“style hunters”
women who followed American fashion
women who followed American fashion
“style hunters”
Sinyavksy and Daniel
Authors who enjoyed fame under Khrushchev, but were persecuted in 1965 by Brezhnev show trial, sent to labour camps
