Terror

Question 1

When was the Cheka

Answer 1

1917

Question 2

What did the Cheka act against?

Answer 2

Revolutionaries and sabotage

Question 3

Who created the Cheka

Answer 3

Lenin

Question 4

What did the Cheka do?

Answer 4

Orchestrated Red terror during civil war

Question 5

How many shots by Cheka during 1921-22

Answer 5

200K

Question 6

Did Cheka operate outside the law

Answer 6

Yes

Question 7

Who led the Cheka?

Answer 7

“ iron felix” - Dzerhinsky

Question 8

When was the OGPU created?

Answer 8

1923

Question 9

OGPU was a…

Answer 9

Larger, more professional force

Question 10

Was the OGPU separate from the the gov & party?

Answer 10

Increasingly separarte

Question 11

OGPU establishes…

Answer 11

The gulag system

Question 12

OGPU led by? Up to what year?

Answer 12

Dzerhinsky up to his death in 1926

Question 13

When was the NKVD created?

Answer 13

1934

Question 14

When was the NKVD powerful and why?

Answer 14

By mid 1930s fue to show trials

Question 15

Who ran the NKVD?

Answer 15

Yagoda, Yezhov and Beria

Question 16

The NKVD greatly expanded?

Answer 16

Gulags

Question 17

Did the NKVD operate outside the law?

Answer 17

Completely outside

Execution without trial very common

Question 18

When was the KGB created

Answer 18

1954

Question 19

The KGB was far more… than NKVD

Answer 19

Professional

Question 20

KGB was controlled by…?

Answer 20

The party

Question 21

The KGB had a key role in what?

Answer 21

Foreign espionage in Cold War

Question 22

Did the KGB use terror to control population?

Answer 22

No

But oppression of dissidents

Question 23

Who ran the the KGB

From what year to what year?

Answer 23

Andropov

1967-1982

Question 24

How did yagoda expand the use of the OGPU?

Answer 24

Rapid expansion of gulag, chief administrator of corrective labour camps

Question 25

Changes in gulags under yagoda

Answer 25

- economic considerations - exploiting economic resources - achievements: White Sea canal - 141 mile canal used up to 180,000 labourers from the gulag

Question 26

In what year was Yagoda accused of incompetence in safeguarding Kirov?

Answer 26

1936

Question 27

Who speeded the process of arrest, trial and imprisonment

Answer 27

Yezhov

Question 28

How many people made up the courts? How were the courts called?

Answer 28

Made up of 3 people | Troikas

Question 29

In September 1937...... processed ........ prisoners each day

Answer 29

The Karelian troika | 231 prisoners

Question 30

Who introduced the Conveyor belt system” and what was it

Answer 30

Yezhov | Speed up process of greying confessions from NKV system

Question 31

What aspects of life did Yezhov attacck

Answer 31

Party army industry &collective farms

Question 32

How many people arrested during Yezhov period

Answer 32

1.5m arrests | (10% of male adult population were arrested by the NKVD

Question 33

From what year to what year was Yezhovshchina and how many ppl deported to Siberia and hour many ppl executed

Answer 33

635,000 deported to Siberia | 680,000 executed

Question 34

Percentage of men targeted during Yezhov

Answer 34

95%

Question 35

When did Yezhiv resign

Answer 35

1938

Question 36

When was Yezhov executed

Answer 36

1939

Question 37

What did Beria want to do W/gulags

Answer 37

Make it more profitable

Question 38

How many roubles were there in 1937 and how many in 1940 | Beria

Answer 38

2b in 1937 | 4.5b in 1940

Question 39

Under Beria the gulags reached its....

Answer 39

Biggest expanse

Question 40

Under Beria what was the quantity of gold that came from the gulags

Answer 40

1/3 of Russia’s gold

Question 41

What was Smersh and who set it up

Answer 41

Beria Dealt w/ suspects spies & involved to root out traitors & involved in the morder of more than 4,000 polish officers at Katyn in 1943

Question 42

What did Beria do in 1944?

Answer 42

Ordered deportations to Siberia of all 460,000 Chenchens from their homelands in Chechnya within 7 days

Question 43

How many people did Beria interrogate in 1945?

Answer 43

1.5m

Question 44

What was the Leningrad affair and when did it happen?

Answer 44

1949 Stalin launched a purge aguanta officials in Leningrad party he claimed that they acted independently around 200 party members arrested & forces to confess crimes against the party

Question 45

What was the doctors plot and when was it

Answer 45

1952-53 Stalin’s medical staff arrested for trying to poison Stalin Most accused Jews

Question 46

When did Andropov cami to power?

Answer 46

1967

Question 47

An intellectual dissident

Answer 47

Andrei Sakharov

Question 48

Andrei Sakharov was famous for?

Answer 48

My country and the world Lead scientist m in H-Bomb development Nobel literature

Question 49

Expample of political dissident?

Answer 49

Leónid Boronid- writer- open orthodox

Question 50

Example of religious dissidents

Answer 50

Alexander Solzhenitsyn | Member of Russian Orthodox Church

Question 51

What famous Novel did Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote?

Answer 51

The gulag archipiélago, 1968

Question 52

When did Alexander Solzhenitsyn receive the Nobel prize

Answer 52

1979