concentrations camps after the purges in 1937. External purges were also conducted in Spain, in which the NKVD oversaw purges of anti-Stalinist elements in...

Soviet engineer and scientist. The son of Leon Trotsky, he was killed in the Great Purge. The son of Leon Trotsky by his second wife, and younger brother...

1938) was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and Leon Trotsky's first wife. She died in the Great Purges no earlier than 1938. Sokolovskaya's father, Lev...

Spanish communist and NKVD secret agent who assassinated the revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Mexico City in August 1940. Mercader was imprisoned for 19 years...

the Great Purges under Stalin and was murdered by Soviet forces three years later. Until this point, Trotsky had used his birth name: Lev (Leon) Bronstein...

2018 FIFA World Cup being hosted in Russia due to anti-gay purges in Chechnya. In 2019, León was a headline speaker for the commencement of Madrid Pride...

first husband and a son by her second. Both husbands died during the Great Purges. In January 1931, Volkova was allowed to leave Russia to visit her father...

Felisita Leon "YaYa" Gosselin (born January 26, 2009) is an American actress. She began her career modelling for commercials and made her acting debut...

Гвардейское дело). The late 1930s saw purges of the Red Army leadership which occurred concurrently with Stalin's Great Purge of Soviet society. In 1936 and...

relationship after their divorce. She disappeared in 1935 during the Great Purges and was murdered by Stalinist forces three years later. Lev Sedov was an...

replace Rosenberg, who soon vanished during the Great Purge. Gaikis himself soon fell victim to the purges. In June 1937, he was recalled to Moscow. He thought...

Germany and Japan. The film "defends the purges, complete with a quarter-hour dedicated to arguing that Leon Trotsky was a Nazi agent". In the film, former...

Press. ISBN 0-300-12389-2. "Introduction: the Great Purges as history", Origins of the Great Purges, Cambridge University Press, pp. 1–9, 1985, doi:10...

but also involved a power struggle within the PZPR itself. The subsequent purges within the ruling party, led by Moczar and his faction, failed to topple...

Nationalist Government in Wuhan controlled by Wang Jingwei on 18 April. The purges garnered the Nanjing government the support of much of the NRA, the Chinese...

needed] In his memoirs, Nikita Khrushchev argued that Stalin's widespread purges of the "most advanced nucleus of people" among the Old Bolsheviks and leading...

Ramiro de León Carpio (12 January 1942 – 16 April 2002) was a Guatemalan politician who served as the 43rd president of Guatemala from June 1993 until...

guitarist Kat Bjelland, along with drummer Lori Barbero and bassist Michelle Leon, who was later replaced by Maureen Herman in 1992. Babes in Toyland released...

Charges Made against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow Trials") was initiated in March 1937 by the American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky. It was named...

character in George Orwell's 1945 novel Animal Farm. He is largely based on Leon Trotsky, who led the opposition against Joseph Stalin (Napoleon). Snowball...

Red Army purges of 1937. Leon Trotsky described Tukhachevsky posthumously as a "outstanding talent" for his strategic skills and viewed the purge of the...

and branch of Marxism developed by Russian revolutionary and intellectual Leon Trotsky along with some other members of the Left Opposition and the Fourth...

Budyonny and Shaposhnikov would survive the purges that followed. The trial triggered a massive subsequent purge of the Red Army. In September 1938, the People's...

in life, Molotov described his role in purges of the 1930s, arguing that despite the overbreadth of the purges, they were necessary to avoid Soviet defeat...

Revolution, the Russian Civil War, the Red Terror, and Joseph Stalin's Great Purge. Leon Gellert, an Australian poet of Hungarian descent, enlisted in the First...

2006, Enigma Books, ISBN 1929631626 Getty, J. Arch. Origins of the Great Purges. pp. 121–122 and 245–246. Brackman, Roman., The Secret File of Joseph Stalin:...

department at Leningrad University who was killed during one of Stalin's purges MPC · 4233 4234 Evtushenko 1978 JT1 Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933–2017), Russian...

were also automatically repressed according to NKVD Order no. 00486. The purges were organized in a number of waves according to decisions of the Politburo...

escape crushing personal debts, and was then caught up in Stalin's political purges. In any case, Theremin did not return to the United States until 1991. After...

Leon Narwicz (Russian: Леон Нарвич, Лев Нарвич), also Leon Narvich, León Druan (1911–1938) was a radical left-wing political militant and revolutionary...