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...

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...

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

this kind of repression.: 478–481  In 1928, the Soviet Union underwent a goods famine known as the Soviet grain crisis; this led to the forced collectivization...

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...

Throughout the history of the Soviet Union (1922–1991), there were periods when Soviet authorities suppressed and persecuted various forms of Christianity...

information, the Soviet Union was attempting to keep social revolutions at bay. Academic bias Ideological repression in the Soviet Union Political censorship...

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

The deportation of Koreans in the Soviet Union (Russian: Депортация корейцев в СССР; Korean: 고려인의 강제 이주) was the forced transfer of nearly 172,000 Koryo-saram...

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...

persecution of people in Belarus under Soviet rule. According to researchers, the exact number of people who became victims of Soviet repression in Belarus is hard...

Religion in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was dominated by the fact that it became the first state to have as one objective of its official...

Human rights activists in the Soviet Union were regularly subjected to harassment, repressions and arrests. According to the Universal Declaration of...

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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...

mass campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union from 1936 to 1938, orchestrated by Joseph Stalin and carried out by the NKVD under Genrikh Yagoda...

Censorship in the Soviet Union was pervasive and strictly enforced. Censorship was performed in two main directions: State secrets were handled by the General...

the main security agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 to 1991. It was the direct successor of preceding Soviet secret police agencies including the Cheka...

to speak out against them. The term dissident was used in the Soviet Union (USSR) in the period from the mid-1960s until the Fall of Communism. It was...

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the Soviet Union. Different estimations range from 8,000 to 25,000 of Finns killed or disappearing during the repression. Soviet repression of the Ingrian...

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As a result of the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, hundreds of thousands of Polish soldiers became prisoners of war. Many of them were executed; 22...

Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, made to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet...

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...

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