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| Question | Answer |
| Impact of purges on education | Many teaches exiled to rural areas - improved standards |
| Increase in welfare spending 1950-80 | 5x Still insufficient to live on |
| Andre Sinyavsky & Yuri Daniel | - dissidents writing anti soviet literature - arrested under Article 70 of Criminal Code (catch-all powers of dealing with anything 'anti soviet') - sentenced to 9 years hard labour in 1966 - caused demonstration of 200 students and open letter by intellectuals - nothing happened, showing society not too free |
| Novosibirsk report | Tatiana Zaslavskaya 1983 - command economy failing - Highlighted growth slowing - 1966-70 7.5%, 1981-82 2.5% |
| Kruschchev de-centralisation | - Split party into industrial & agricultural sectors - undone by Brezhnev |
| Song for Stalin | Izavosky - propaganda poem |
| Mystery Bouffe | Mayakovsky - 1918 - avant guard pro-socialist play - ran for one performance, as workers didn't understand it |
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