Answer to Question #266266 in History for hsjgglGU

Question

1. Describe how Stalin and the Communist party kept Soviet citizens in line and believing in the Communist ideology during the 1920s and 1930s.

2. Describe the events of the Prague Spring, from January to August of 1968.

3. What sense do you have of life in the Soviet Union during the decades of Stalin’s rule based on the two documents from the Sources reader by Tchernavin and Solzhenitsyn? (Refer to both!)

Answer 1

1

• secret police,
• propaganda
• personality cultism,
• mass surveillance
• political purges

2

hard-line communists retook positions of power

reformer and Dubček were curtailed

3

People lived in intense poverty