aimed at removing the remaining influence of Leon Trotsky within the Soviet Union. The term great purge was popularized by the historian Robert Conquest...
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Ramón Mercader (redirect from Leon Jacome)
titled All in the Timing. Caridad Mercader África de las Heras Great Purge Leon Trotsky Museum, Mexico City Moscow Trials Photograph of Mercader's Gravestone...
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Sergei Sedov (category Great Purge victims from Russia)
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...
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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...
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YaYa Gosselin (redirect from Felisita Leon Gosselin)
(2017). Following this, she made minor appearances in Peppermint (2018), The Purge (2018), 13 Reasons Why (2019–2020), and FBI (2019–2020). She reprised her...
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Aleksandra Sokolovskaya (category Great Purge victims from Ukraine)
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...
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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...
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Shanghai massacre (redirect from 1927 Shanghai Purge)
The Shanghai massacre of 12 April 1927, the April 12 Purge or the April 12 Incident as it is commonly known in China, was the violent suppression of Chinese...
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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...
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Moscow trials (redirect from Moscow purge trials)
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...
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Case of the Trotskyist Anti-Soviet Military Organization (category Political and cultural purges)
anti-Soviet crimes. The trial was preceded by several purges of the Red Army. In the mid-1920s, Leon Trotsky was removed as Commissar of War, and his known...
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the Great Purge. Born in 1898 in Warsaw, then controlled by the Russian Empire, to a Jewish middle-class family under the birth name Leon Haykis (since...
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Snowball (Animal Farm) (category Cultural depictions of Leon Trotsky)
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...
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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...
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The NKVD is known for carrying out political repression and the Great Purge under Joseph Stalin, as well as counterintelligence and other operations...
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1968 Polish political crisis (redirect from 1968 purge of Polish Jews)
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...
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Stalin's purges and massacres between 1936 and the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany (Great Purge) had about one million victims. This list...
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Stalinism (section Purges and executions)
Stalin's ideology to begin to wane in the USSR. Stalin's regime forcibly purged society of what it saw as threats to itself and its brand of communism (so-called...
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Dewey Commission (redirect from Commission of Inquiry into the Charges Made against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow Trials)
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...
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The purge of the French Civil Service between 1879 and 1884, also known as the "revolution of jobs," refers to a series of political measures taken in...
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Mikhail Tukhachevsky (category Great Purge victims from Russia)
Sergeyev (1991): p. 44 "Leon Trotsky: How Stalin's Purge Beheaded the Red Army (1937)". www.marxists.org. "Leon Trotsky: How Stalin's Purge Beheaded the Red...
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Babes in Toyland (band) (redirect from Michelle Leon)
11, 2015. Leon 2016, p. 23. Leon 2016, pp. 23–4. Cromelin, Richard (November 25, 1992). "Year of the Kat : Kat Bjelland's penchant for purging her emotions...
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Semyon Budyonny (section Role in the Great Purge)
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 the...
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Kliment Voroshilov (category Great Purge perpetrators)
politically appointed commanders of the post-purge Red Army saw that the army, especially after the purge, was not suitable to carry out deep operations...
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imprisoned in gulags or executed by the late 1930s, as a result of the Great Purge by Joseph Stalin. Initially, the term "Old Bolshevik" referred to Bolsheviks...
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his recurring role as Tyler in the FX series Sons of Anarchy as well as Leon Hayes in the 2006 film Gridiron Gang. He starred in Fox's Pitch. Raised in...
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Zinaida Volkova (category Leon Trotsky)
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...
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Genrikh Yagoda (category Executed Great Purge perpetrators)
Bolsheviks Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev, climactic events of the Great Purge. Yagoda also supervised construction of the White Sea–Baltic Canal with...
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Grigory Zinoviev (category Trial of the Sixteen (Great Purge))
further accused of treason and other offenses during the Stalinist Great Purge, and was executed after a show trial in August 1936. Grigory Zinoviev was...
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