Secret Police and NEP 1

Question 1

1. During NEP, was terror on a larger or smaller scale than during the Civil War?
2. In 1922, Lenin instructed Dzerzhinsky to set up an agency within the GPU to monitor what?
   - Who did the GPU also keep under surveillance?
3. What did the GPU have the power to intercept?
4. Who did the GPU keep under close scrutiny?
   - Who did Lenin instruct Dzerzhinsky to supervise the deportation of in 1922?
5. What else did the GPU report to the C.C. about?

Answer 1

1. Smaller.
2. The press.
   - Former Tsarist officers who now served in the Red Army.
3. Communication, including post.
4. Intellectuals and students.
   - Professors and engineers who he suspected as having anti-communist sympathies.
5. Moral problems.

Question 2

1. What did Lenin fear the economic compromise of NEP would lead to?
2. What trial did Dzerzhinsky organise in 1922?
3. How were all of the defendants sentenced in August 1922?

Answer 2

1. Political overthrow.
2. Trial of Socialist Revolutionary Leaders.
3. To death.

Question 3

1. Who did the GPU imprison during NEP?
2. They harassed women who what?
3. They persecuted young people who what?
   - Who did they also persecute?

Answer 3

1. Nepmen who had grown too rich.
2. Dressed in Western styles.
3. Danced to Jazz music.
   - Priests.