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What motivated Joseph Stalin to persecute writers, scholars, and scientists?
People in these professions made up the bulk of the Communist Party.
Stalin was convinced one of them would try to overthrow him and seize power.
Many were non-Russians who Stalin wanted to drive out of the country.
Stalin feared they might spread ideas that went against the Soviet government.
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Correct answer: Stalin feared they might spread ideas that went against the Soviet government.
Brief explanation: Stalin and his regime saw independent intellectuals as ideological threats because writers, scholars and scientists could shape public opinion, critique policy, and promote alternative ideas. To enforce conformity he used censorship, show trials, purges and repressive cultural policies (e.g., Socialist Realism, attacks on "formalism" and "bourgeois specialists") to silence or neutralize dissenting voices.
Brief explanation: Stalin and his regime saw independent intellectuals as ideological threats because writers, scholars and scientists could shape public opinion, critique policy, and promote alternative ideas. To enforce conformity he used censorship, show trials, purges and repressive cultural policies (e.g., Socialist Realism, attacks on "formalism" and "bourgeois specialists") to silence or neutralize dissenting voices.
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