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Great Purge

The Great Purge or Great Terror (Russian: Большой террор, romanized: Bol'shoy terror), also known as the Year of '37 (37-й год, Tridtsat' sed'moy god) and the Yezhovshchina (ежовщина [(j)ɪˈʐofɕːɪnə], lit. 'period of Yezhov'), was a political purge in the Soviet Union from 1936 to 1938. After the assassination of Sergei Kirov by Leonid Nikolaev in 1934…

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Location
Soviet Union, Republic of China (Sinkiang clique), Mongolian People's Republic, Tannu Tuva
Attack type
Mass murder, political repression, ethnic cleansing, summary executions
Date
Main phase: 19 August 1936 – 17 November 1938 (2 years, 2 months, 4 weeks and 1 day)
Deaths
681,692 executions and 116,000 deaths in the Gulag system (official figures) 700,000 to 1.2 million (estimated)
Motive
Elimination of political opponents, consolidation of power, fear of counterrevolution, fear of party infiltration
Perpetrators
Joseph Stalin, the NKVD (Genrikh Yagoda, Nikolai Yezhov, Lavrentiy Beria, Ivan Serov and others), Vyacheslav Molotov, Andrey Vyshinsky, Lazar Kaganovich, Kliment Voroshilov, Rob…

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Moscow trials

"Ex-kulaks" and other "anti-Soviet elements"

Campaigns targeting nationalities

Purge of the army and navy

Wider purge

End

Western reactions

Rehabilitation

Number of people executed

Stalin's role

Soviet investigative commissions

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related to Intelligentsia · 196
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related to External links · 37
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related to Western reactions · 35
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related to Stalin's role · 31
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related to Number of people executed · 24
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related to End · 22
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related to Rehabilitation · 21
Great Purge → CPSU, February, Former Politburo, In, Khrushchev, Leon Trotsky, Marxist, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Moscow Trials, Nikita Khrushchev, Nikolai Bukharin, Red Army, Rehabilitation, Russian Revolution, Stalin, Stalin's, Stanislav Kosior, The Great Purge, The Political Processes, USSR
related to Xinjiang purge · 20
Great Purge → Apresoff, China, Fascist Trotskyite, General Ma Hushan, Hoja-Niyaz, Huang Han-chang, Ma Shaowu, Mahmud Sijan, NKVD, Pro-Soviet, Sheng, Sheng Shicai, Soviet, Soviet Consul General Garegin, Soviet Union, Soviets, Stalin's Great Purge, The Xinjiang War, Trotskyist, Xinjiang
related to Mass graves and memorials · 18
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related to Campaigns targeting nationalities · 13
Great Purge → Gulag, Kulak Operation, NKVD, On Yezhov's, Overall, Poles, Polish, Seventy-four, Soviet, Soviet Union, The, The Polish Operation, Timothy Snyder

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Great PurgeAttack typeMass murder, political repression, ethnic cleansing, summary executions1.00infobox
Great PurgeDateMain phase: 19 August 1936 – 17 November 1938 (2 years, 2 months, 4 weeks and 1 day)1.00infobox
Great PurgeDeaths681,692 executions and 116,000 deaths in the Gulag system (official figures) 700,000 to 1.2 million (estimated)1.00infobox
Great PurgeLocationSoviet Union, Republic of China (Sinkiang clique), Mongolian People's Republic, Tannu Tuva1.00infobox
Great PurgeMotiveElimination of political opponents, consolidation of power, fear of counterrevolution, fear of party infiltration1.00infobox
Great PurgePerpetratorsJoseph Stalin, the NKVD (Genrikh Yagoda, Nikolai Yezhov, Lavrentiy Beria, Ivan Serov and others), Vyacheslav Molotov, Andrey Vyshinsky, Lazar Kaganovich, Kliment Voroshilov, Rob…1.00infobox
Great PurgeTargetPolitical opponents, Trotskyists, Red Army leadership, kulaks, religious activists and leaders1.00infobox
to convince any unprejudiced person that no attempt was made to ascertain the truth.That while confessions are necessarily entitled to the most serious considerationinstance ofThat the conduct of the Moscow Trials was0.80text
the confessions themselves contain such inherent improbabilities as to convince the Commission that they do not represent the truthinstance ofThat the conduct of the Moscow Trials was0.80text
irrespective of any means used to obtain them.That Trotsky never instructed any of the accused or witnesses in the Moscow trials to enter into agreements with foreign powers against the Soviet Unioninstance ofThat the conduct of the Moscow Trials was0.80text
Bertram Wolfeinstance ofFor prominent communists0.80text
Jay Lovestoneinstance ofFor prominent communists0.80text

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