Throughout the history of the Soviet Union, tens of millions of people suffered political repression, which was an instrument of the state since the October...

There was systematic political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union, based on the interpretation of political opposition or dissent as a psychiatric...

Political repression is the act of a state entity controlling a citizenry by force for political reasons, particularly for the purpose of restricting or...

"inflicting damage", "harming") was a crime specified in the criminal code of the Soviet Union in the Stalin era. It is often translated as "sabotage"; however...

the deported. Resettling of "enemy classes" such as prosperous peasants and entire populations by ethnicity was a method of political repression in the...

Repression in the Soviet Union was an ongoing characteristic of the state throughout the history of the Soviet Union, characterized by restricting the...

Ideological repression in the Soviet Union targeted various worldviews and the corresponding categories of people. Until the late 1920s, various forms...

seriously by the Communist authorities.: 117  Human rights activists in the Soviet Union were regularly subjected to harassment, repressions and arrests...

was the secret police of the Soviet Union from November 1923 to July 1934, succeeding the State Political Directorate (GPU). Responsible to the Council...

From 1930 to 1952, the government of the Soviet Union, on the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and under the direction of the NKVD official Lavrentiy...

= State Political Directorate (also State Political Administration) under the People's Commissariat of interior affairs of the Russian Soviet Federative...

the full official name of the agency changed several times. The Gulag is recognized as a major instrument of political repression in the Soviet Union...

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Many fields of scientific research in the Soviet Union were banned or suppressed with various justifications. All humanities and social sciences were...

applied to people under the Federal Security Service of Russia, the KGB's successor in Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. For most agencies...

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relaxed political repression and censorship, released millions of political prisoners from the Gulag and instituted a de-Stalinization of Soviet society...

Soviet Jews—who were denied permission to emigrate, primarily to Israel, by the authorities of the Soviet Union and other countries of the Soviet Bloc...

Stalin's policy of political repression of the potential opposition to the Soviet power (see Population transfer in the Soviet Union). The deported were typically...

Tridtsat' sed'moy god) and the Yezhovshchina (Ежовщина [(j)ɪˈʐofɕːɪnə], lit. 'period of Yezhov'), was a political purge in the Soviet Union that took place from...

forced labor in the Gulag. Nina decides to follow her husband to Sevvostlag in Kolyma, a remote region of the Soviet Union bounded by the East Siberian...

The Red Terror (Russian: красный террор, romanized: krasnyy terror) was a campaign of political repression and executions in Soviet Russia carried out...

was a ministry of the Soviet Union from 1946 to 1953 which functioned as the country's secret police. The ministry inherited the intelligence and state...

protect the October Revolution from "class enemies" such as the bourgeoisie and members of the clergy, the Cheka soon became a tool of repression wielded...

annual day when victims of political repression in the Soviet Union are remembered and mourned across the Russian Federation. The day has been observed since...

collapse and political disintegration. Established in 1922 following the Russian Civil War, the Soviet Union quickly became a one-party state under the Communist...

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to political repression. In political praxis, the term enemy of the people implies that political opposition to the ruling power group renders the people...

the issue of Soviet repression in the Russian consciousness." Wheatcroft wrote that the book was essentially a "literary and political work", and "never...