Unit one - Beria

Question 1

Beria’s reform

Answer 1

• March 1953 introduced an amnesty of non-political prisoners
• This was extended in April to some counter revolutionaries
• A party commision was set up to investigate past executions. This rehabillitated 4620 communists who had been executed on the basis of ofrced confessions.
• The MVD lost most of its econmoic power, Projects like gulag labour constructed factoires and power stations.