Assignments 34 and 35 Gulags and Cult of Personality

What proportion of the Soviet workforce was imprisoned in gulags?

• 1/10

• 1/20

• 1/30

• 1/40

• None of the Above

What happened to children of prisoners?

• Some were imprisoned with their parents.

• Some were sent to orphanages.

• Some were taken in by relatives.

• Many were ostracized.

• All of the above

In what year did the gulag population reach its peak with more than 2.5 million people in the camps?

• 1938

• 1941

• 1950

• 1953

• None of the above.

Which prisoners had the highest status in the camps.

• Political prisoners

• Petty criminals

• Criminals guilty of serious crimes

What style of painting is this?

• Soviet Futurism

• Socialist Realism

• Constructivism

• Primitivism

• None of the above

A school history text book produced under Stalin's regime. This emphasized Stalin's role in the revolution and removed figures like Trotsky altogether. In this way, education and History itself were used to serve the cult of Stalin.

• History of the Soviet Republic

• History of the Soviet Union

• Soviet People's History

• History of the USSR

• None of the above.

This was the literature office in charge of censoring books in the USSR.

• Gosplan

• GKO

• Stavka

• Gavlit

• None of the above.

This photo is of Yezhov, Molotov, and Voroshilov (in no particular order, walking with Stalin at the shore of the Moscow-Volga Channel near Moscow, Russia, 1937. When and why do you think it was altered?

• In 1939-40 to remove Yezhov

• In 1940-41 to remove Voroshilov

• In 1948 to remove Molotov.

• None of the above.

Which of the following was not involved in censorship in the USSR?

• Friends of the Author

• Publisher

• Literature Office

• Official Critics

• None of the above

This man was head of the NKVD from 1938 to 1953. He presided over the winding down of the purges and the purge of the NKVD (who were blamed for the excesses of the purges.) He became one of Stalin's most important lieutenants. In 1953 it appeared that Stalin was preparing to move against him as he had against so many others, and there is some evidence to suggest that this man may have poisoned Stalin to save himself. After Stalin's death he was briefly part of a team of three leaders running the USSR, but was quickly arrested and executed by political rivals in 1953.

• Yagoda

• Yezhov

• Beria

• None of the above.