Assignment Details

Cover Work - Wed 20/11

2019-20

History Year 12

Date Due

Nov. 21, 2019

Additional Info
As I will not be in class today, please take the time to begin note-taking on the next topic: The Soviet Leadership after Stalin. Note guidance below.

The Collective Leadership

Produce brief fact files on each member of the collective leadership that existed after Stalin's death in 1953.

What reforms did Beria introduce and what was the motivation behind them (MVD and the Republics)?

How did Beria fall from power and why?

Why did Khruschchev win the power struggle after Stalin's death?

Khrushchev: De-Stalinisation & Reform

What criticisms were made of Stalin in the Secret Speech and why did Khrushchev do this?

What were the key features and problems of de-Stalinisation?

Outline Khrushchev's early reforms; explain what is meant by the term 'Socialist legality' and the anti-bureaucracy campaign