High Stalinism - Government, Party, and Control

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Across
  1. 4. How Stalin often conveyed his wishes
  2. 7. ____ million, gulag population by 1953
  3. 8. Many thought clue 12 signalled Stalin was planning to do what with the old leadership?
  4. 10. Title given to Stalin for his defeat of the Germans
  5. 13. 19__, year in which celebrations for Stalin's 70th birthday ended
  6. 15. What happened in the gulags, winter of 1949/50
  7. 17. What the USSR remained
  8. 18. The 19th Party Congress was the first since 19__
  9. 20. When Beria stopped being head of the NKVD
  10. 22. Position Stalin was often given in propaganda
  11. 23. Beria was ____ by his colleagues
Down
  1. 1. Year of the 19th Party Congress
  2. 2. Where many prisoners of war were sent when they returned
  3. 3. Using gulag prisoners as slave labour was what?
  4. 5. Number of people in the Politburo
  5. 6. Party institutions were often what?
  6. 9. During WW2 party membership grew from ___ _ ___ million
  7. 11. Politburo membership was ___ _____ as in 1939
  8. 12. What replaced the Politburo
  9. 14. Percentage of prisoners who had not completed their work norms in 1952
  10. 16. 19__, year in which celebrations for Stalin's 70th birthday began
  11. 17. Where the person in clue 19 was sent as a result
  12. 19. General accused of plotting against Stalin
  13. 21. Number of people in clue 12