Opposition to Khrushchev

• Who did Khrushchev expel from the party by referring the vote against him in the presidium to the CC?


  the Anti-party group
• What did Khrushchev expel the anti party group for?

  Factionalism
• Only 2% of prisoners were political prisoners by?


  1957
• What led to debate over elections and rights from the intelligensia?

  Khrushchevs relaxing of opposition treatment
• Outright opposition was minimal from ?

  ordinary citizens
• Why did ordinary people not oppose the regime under Khrushchev?


  Stalinist terror encouraged silence
• What was the norm instead of outright opposition?


  non-compliance
• What is Novocherhassk?


  A location of an uprising in Ukraine 1962
• Novocherhassk triggered by sharp increases in food prices and wage cuts at electrical works

  25% butter increase, 30% meat
• How long before the story of Novocherhassk surfaced?

  30 years
• Tamizdat


  Publishing abroad to avoid censorship
• Samizdat


  Self-Publishing to avoid censorship
• Where did dissent in the literature mostly spread?

  Underground
• how many writers were identified as anti regime by 1961?

  130,000