Khrushchev control- media, propaganda and terror

what did K claim in 1959, and what did this mean? (in terms of political prisoners)

that ‘there are no political prisoners [left in the soviet union], only persons of unsound mind’

this can suggest that Khrushchev’s rehabilitation of prisoners has been successful

whilst also highlighting how his preffered approach to dissent was subjecting them to psychiatric treatment

What had K been committed to in terms of culture? were there any times when this wavered?

a degree if cultural freedom and liberalisation

this wavered during his periods of cultual freezes

what does it mean/ is involved in k’s compulsory, repressive psychiatry used against dissident?

by what year did K have a personality cult of his own?

1958

K’s f_____ to deliver on his widely o______ p________ about out-p________ the USA, led to a f___ in confidence in K’s fitness to g____.

failure

optimistic

promises

producing

fall

govern

what did khrushchev’s government see as a form of resistance?

church attendance 

when did K close roman catholic monastries?

1959

give an example of an anti-religion magazine published by K and from what year?

Science and Religion

From 1960

what % of protestant christians were women under K’s leadership?

80%

what can we nickname the change in K’s policies where they switched from ultural ‘thaws’ to ‘freezes’?

a zig-zag policy

what did K invest heavily in during his rule?

therefore: i______ in edu meant that the sov i__________ was the fastest g_______ section of s_____ in the 19__s

why did K invest in these?

universities

improvements

growing

society

1960s

he believed intellecs should help gov build socialism and that they would understand the benefits of comms

what did K believe that ordinary people and workers were not ready for?

what does this explain?(the presence of)

for complete freedom or even the complete trith about stalin’s poicies

he feared this would destabilise the party as would incraese criticism

explains the switch between thaws and freezes 

give an example of a period of cultural thaw and something that happened in it?

1961-61

there was a vote to remove stalin’s body from Red Square

a number of books=published that were critical of aspects of stalinism

EG: One day in the life of ivan denisovich’ - by Solzhenitsyn,, explains life of a prisoner in a Gulag

in terms of music, how were there thaws under K, give some examples?

classical music of western europe and the us was put back on the curriculum in schools (taken off by stalin) in 1957!

(more cultural freedom)

example of when a freeze was put in place (think artists)

after the final thaw (1961-62 ish) there was a final freeze whereby freedom of expression had passed the limit which the gov was willing to tolerate

led to the arrest and imprisonment of several artists

eg: poet Josef Brodsky was arrested in 194