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Official figures put the total number of documentable executions during the years 1937 and 1938 at 681,692, in addition to 116,000 deaths in the Gulag, and 2,000 unofficially killed in non-article 58 shootings; whereas the total estimate of deaths brought about by Soviet repression during the Great Purge ranges from 950,000 to 1.2 ...
- Motives For The Great Terror
- Sergei Kirov
- Moscow Trials
- Fifth Column
- Gulag Labor Camps
- Leon Trotsky
- Legacy of The Great Terror
- Sources
Soviet Union leader Vladimir Lenin, head of the Bolshevikparty, died in 1924. Stalin had to fight his way to political succession, but ultimately declared himself dictator in 1929. Upon Stalin’s rise to power, some members of the former Bolshevik party began to question his authority. By the mid-1930s, Stalin believed anyone with ties to the Bolshe...
The first event of the Great Terror took place in 1934 with the assassination of Sergei Kirov, a prominent Bolshevik leader. Kirov was murderedat the Communist Party headquarters by a man named Leonid Nikolayev. Although his role is debated, many speculate that Stalin himself ordered the murder of Kirov. After Kirov’s death, Stalin launched his pur...
Kirov’s death led to three widely publicized trials that successfully wiped out many of Stalin’s political rivals and critics. Several former high-ranking Communists, including Lev Kamenev, Grigorii Zinoviev, Nikolai Bukharin and Aleksei Rykov, to name a few, were accused of treason. The trials, which became known as the Moscow Trials, were clearly...
Stalin used terms, such as “fifth column,” “enemy of the people” and “saboteurs” to describe those who were sought out during the Great Purge. The killing and imprisonment started with members of the Bolshevik party, political officials and military members. Then the purge expanded to include peasants, ethnic minorities, artists, scientists, intell...
There’s no doubt the brutal tactics of Stalin paralyzed the country and promoted a climate of widespread terror. Some victims claimed they would rather have been killed than sent to endure the torturous conditions at the infamous Gulag labor camps. Many who were sent to the Gulag camps were ultimately executed. Although most historians estimate tha...
The Great Terror officially ended around 1938, but many believe Stalin wasn’t truly finished until his long-time rival Leon Trotskywas eliminated. Trotsky was sentenced to death in absentia during the Moscow Trials. Living in exile in Mexico, Trotsky was assassinatedin 1940 with an ice pick by a Spanish communist. Even after this assassination, mas...
Stalin’s successor, Nikita Khrushchev, condemned the cruel violence of the Great Terror. In a 1956 secret speech, Khrushchev called the purges “an abuse of power” and acknowledged that many of the victims were, in fact, innocent. Stalin’s acts of terror and torture broke the Soviet people’s spirit and effectively eliminated certain groups of citize...
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9. Mai 2024 · Great Purge, three widely publicized show trials and a series of closed, unpublicized trials held in the Soviet Union during the late 1930s, in which many prominent Old Bolsheviks were found guilty of treason and executed or imprisoned. Learn more about the Great Purge in this article.
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10. Sept. 2016 · The official number stands 1,548,366 detained persons, of whom 681,692 were shot – an average of 1,000 executions a day. Various historians claim that the real number of victims could be twice as much.
20. Mai 2010 · Thus, the Great Terror of 1937-1938 in the Soviet Union solidified in popular and academic memory as Stalin’s attack on political and social elites, as the “Great Purges”. This has been fundamentally challenged since the opening of the soviet archives, the discovery of the NKVD operational orders and other top-secret Politburo ...
During the purge, the NKVD widely utilized imprisonment, torture, violent interrogation, and arbitrary executions to solidify control over civilians through fear. In 1938, Stalin reversed his stance on the purges and declared that the internal enemies had been removed.
5. März 2013 · No one knows for sure how many people were murdered during Stalin's Great Purge, but estimates put the figure at more than 1 million. During the peak period of 1937-38, Stalin's secret police...
