The Gerontocracy Y12

What is an oligarchy (page 34)

• Rule by one individual

• Dictatorship of the party

• Rule by a small elite who govern in their own interests

• Rule by the Soviets who pass their views up to the higher levels of government

Who were the Dnepropetrovsk mafia?

• Criminals who profited from the Black Market

• Criminal groups attacked by the Secret Police

• Friends of Brezhnev who he had worked with in Ukraine. They are mediocre, but loyal

• Friensds of Andropov who he had worked with in Ukraine. They are mediocre, but loyal

How was the Dnepropetrovsk mafia used?

• To murder Brezhnev's opposition?

• To strengthen Brezhnev's position against independent Politiburo members?

• To smuggle diamonds for Brezhnev

• To smuggle diamonds for Chernenko

Order these leaders in the correct order

• Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko, Gorbachev

• Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Chernenko,

  Andropov,

  Gorbachev

• Andropov,

  Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Chernenko,

  Gorbachev

• Brezhnev,

  Khrushchev,

  Chernenko,

  Andropov,

  Gorbachev

Who promoted a younger generation of Party members which led t the changes seen in the USSR later?

• Chernenko

• Brezhnev

• Andropov

• Yeltsin

What are Andropovs aims when he becomes leader in 1982 ?page 35

• To stop all reform

• To allow corruption of the party to continue

• To help Gorbachev to be the next leader of the Party

• To allow corruption of the party to continue

What did Chernenko die of in March 1985? page 35

• Emphysema

• Kidney disease

• heart attack

• Fear

How did Andropov try to reform the economy page57

• To remove corruption such as false production figures

• To remove corruption such as theft of materials from state enterprises to the black market

• To encourage people to come forward with new economic ideas

• To have spot checks for slackers

• By being loved

Look at page 118. What was the industrial and agricultural economic growth rates

• Industrial growth = -1.2

  Agricultural growth rate = -2.3

• Industrial growth = 6.3

  Agricultural growth rate = 2.5

• Industrial growth = 1.0

  Agricultural growth rate = 3.9

• Industrial growth = 3.9

  Agricultural growth rate = 1.0

What reform did Andropov allow with the arts between 1982 -84? Page 86

• Music not composed by official Soviet composers could be allowed 20% of radio time

• He didn't reform. As a former Head of KGB he didn't want to

• He sentenced a local art gallery director at Novosibirsk to 8 years in prison for showing the work of dissident painters

• He allowed abstract and experimental art