The Great Purge or Great Terror (Russian: Большой террор, romanized: Bol'shoy terror), also known as the Year of '37 (37-й год, Tridtsat' sed'moy god)...

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...

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 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...

of and topical guide to English Wikipedia articles about the Great Purges. The Great Purge was a mass campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union...

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

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

Joseph 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...

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...

First Five-Year Plan (1928–1932) the killings reached a peak in the Great Purge of 1937–1938. Also, the Soviet mass graves may be related to population...

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...

campaign of purges, as local leaders were not spared during the purges. Stalin's harshest period of mass repression, the Great Purge (or Great Terror), was...

Look up purge in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A purge is a cleansing or purification; in politics it means the forcible removal of undesirable people...

International Brigades. However, this period also coincided with the Great Purge in the Soviet Union, during which many Comintern officials and foreign...

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...

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...

and Peasants' Army." After that, he played a central role in Stalin's Great Purge of the 1930s, denouncing many of his own military colleagues and subordinates...

Pavlovsky, a pro-Soviet cosmopolitan leader, yet purges of the Church reignited during the Great Purge. The collectivization campaign in Kazakhstan also...

to 1938, at the height of the Great Purge. Yezhov organized mass arrests, torture, and executions during the Great Purge, but he fell out of favour with...

Armenia suffered during the Great Purge of Joseph Stalin but contributed significantly to the Soviet victory in the Great Patriotic War of World War II...

His ascent marked the end of the Stalinist Great Purge carried out by Nikolai Yezhov, whom Beria purged. After the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939...

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

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...

hundreds of thousands of his real and perceived political opponents in the Great Purge. Under his regime, an estimated 18 million people passed through the...

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...

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...

conformism and the loss of his friends at the height of Joseph Stalin’s Great Purge heavily affected Iashvili, who committed suicide at the Writers’ Union...

from 1929 to 1953, including 681,692 in 1937–1938, the years of the Great Purge. Unofficial estimates estimate a total number of Stalinism repression...

Stalin's agricultural collectivization (and resulting famine) and his Great Purge. Following his appointment as Foreign Minister in 1939, he signed the...

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,...