Khrushchev interpretion

over 135,000 libraries with 8000 mill books (10× 1913 numbers) +first USSR leader to visit states

1959

8000 fewer churches+ ‘A day in the life of Ivan Denisovich’ approved for release

1964

only 11,000 political prisoners

1960

65,000 books published per year (double 1920s)

late 1950s

novacherkassak massacre had 26 killed

June 1962

the secret speech

25th feb 1956

Hungarian uprising- 3000 Hungarians killed by Russians

23rd oct- 10th nov 1956

around 8 mill prinsoners released

within year of secret speech

12,000 political prisoners released from gulags

1954-55

‘Doctor Zhivago’ published

1957

banged shoe on table while macmillan talking at UN in NYC

12th oct 1960

average household incomes by 3% annually

1960-65

wind erosion meant 13,000 square miles had topsides removed

by 1960

grain production increased from 81 million tonnes to 144 million

1954-58

50% of soviet households in cities had a tv, but only 10% had telephones

1968

7 hour day + minimum wage introduced + extra 35.9 million hectates of land cultivated + virgin land contributed over 50% for total grain harvest of USSR

1956

108 million people moved into newly constructed flats built after WW2’s loses

1956-65

USSR still behind western countries-398 cars per 1000 and 259 washing machines in USA vs 5 and 77 in USSR.

1966

drought year

1955

7th 5yr plan announced- promised to build 12 million city flats and 7 million city homes + Boris Pasternak not allowed to collect noble prize for literature for ‘Doctor Zhivago’

1958

commie party decreed to increase housing construction

31st July 1957

USSR importing food again

1963

Khrushchev announced that USSR would beat USA in meat and butter production

21st party congress (jan 27th- feb 5th 1959)

party membership rose from 6.9 million to 11 million

1954-64

Khrushchev ‘freed’ from general sec of CPSU and USSR pm

14th oct 1964

partial test ban theory signed (no nuclear weapon tests under water, atmosphere- only underground).

5th aug 1963

JFK agreed to remove missiles from turkey

28th oct 1962

U2 spy plane spots soviet nuclear missiles on Cuba

14th oct 1962

when did Fulgencio Batista flee Cuba for Spain

31st dec 1958

Berlin Wall construction begins

13th aug 1961

imre nagy new Hungarian leader after Matyas Rákosi overthrown

24th oct 1956

nagy announces plan for Hungary to leave Warsaw pact

1st Nov 1956

alike first animal in orbit

nov 3rd 1957

Yuri Gagarin first main orbit

12th April 1961

valentia Tereshkova first woman in space

16th June 1963

4 million east Berliners moved to West Berlin

by 1961

imre nagy trialled and executed

16th June 1958