The Great Purge, or the Great Terror (‹See Tfd›Russian: Большой террор, romanized: Bol'shoy terror), also known as the Year of '37 (‹See Tfd›37-й год...

In history, religion and political science, a purge is a position removal or execution of people who are considered undesirable by those in power from...

The Great Purge of 1936–1938 in the Soviet Union can be roughly divided into four periods: October 1936 - February 1937 Reforming the security organizations...

Purges of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union (‹See Tfd›Russian: "Чистка партийных рядов", chistka partiynykh ryadov, "cleansing of the party ranks")...

The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties is a book by British historian Robert Conquest which was published in 1968. It gave rise to an alternate...

Armenian victims of the Great Purge included Armenian intellectuals, writers, artists, Bolshevik and later Soviet statesmen, military commanders, and...

The Purge: Election Year is a 2016 American dystopian political action horror film written and directed by James DeMonaco and starring Frank Grillo, Elizabeth...

refer to: Purge (occupied Japan), the forcible removal of undesirable Japanese from public service during occupation of Japan Great Purge, a campaign...

1936 Provisional Field Regulations (PU-36). The Great Purge of 1937–1939 and the 1941 Red Army Purge removed many leading officers from the Red Army,...

Stalin's agricultural collectivization (and resulting famine) and his Great Purge. As foreign minister from 1939, Molotov signed the Molotov–Ribbentrop...

First Five-Year Plan (1928–1932) the killings reached a peak in the Great Purge of 1937–1938. At all times they were directed and carried out by the...

1939. The repressions were an extension of the Stalinist purges (also known as the Great Purge) unfolding across the Soviet Union around the same time...

1938, during the height of the Great Purge. Yezhov organized mass arrests, torture and executions during the Great Purge, but he fell from Stalin's favour...

imprisoned in gulags or executed in the late 1930s, as a result of the Great Purge by Joseph Stalin. Initially, the term "Old Bolshevik" referred to Bolsheviks...

as Soviet military-related industries were subjected to purges by Joseph Stalin. The Great Purge ended in 1939. In October 1940 the NKVD (People's Commissariat...

He was one of the two most senior army commanders that survived the Great Purge and in post at the time of German invasion of the USSR in 1941. After...

Great Terror The Great Purge (1936–1938), a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union The Great Terror (book), a 1968 book about the Great...

ascent marked the end of the Stalinist Great Purge carried out by previous chief Nikolai Yezhov, whom Beria purged. After the Soviet invasion of Poland...

represented by the work of Albert Einstein. In what was later called the "great purge" of 1933, academics including Max Born, Victor Goldschmidt, James Franck...

of the defendants. The trials are generally seen as part of Stalin's Great Purge, a campaign to rid the party of current or prior opposition, including...

growing nationalist sentiments ultimately led to his Soviet-orchestrated purge in March 1936. Accused of conspiring against the revolution and spying for...

assassination of Sergei Kirov. He would go on to play a major role during the Great Purge. In 1939, he was promoted to full membership of the Politburo and as...

served as a deputy head of the NKVD under Nikolai Yezhov during the Great Purge. Frinovsky was a revolutionary during the Russian Revolution and rose...

functions. The NKVD is known for carrying out political repression and the Great Purge under Joseph Stalin, as well as counterintelligence and other operations...

disruptions to food production contributed to the famine of 1930–33. Stalin's Great Purge used the Gulag system of forced labour camps to eliminate those deemed...

Bolsheviks Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev, climactic events of the Great Purge. Yagoda also supervised construction of the White Sea–Baltic Canal with...

destruction of the officer cadre of the Red Army happened during Stalin's Great Purge. However new data that emerged on the break of the 21st century radically...

forced labor camps known as gulags. The most notorious examples were the Great Purge and the Dekulakization campaign. Stalinism was also marked by militant...

exacerbated the violent purges and terror campaigns carried out by Stalin against members of the party deemed to be traitors. With the Great Purge (1936–1938), Stalin...

sentenced to expatriation. Stalinist repression reached its peak during the Great Purge of 1937–1938, which removed many skilled managers and experts and considerably...