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

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

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...

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

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

Party organization in Leningrad, in December 1934, and the start of the Great Purge, there was a significant but unpublicised rift between Stalin and Molotov...

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

Moscow as deputy head of the NKVD. Under Yezhov, the NKVD carried out the Great Purge: the imprisonment or execution of a huge number, possibly over a million...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

eradicate those deemed "enemies of the working class", Stalin instituted the Great Purge, in which over a million were imprisoned, largely in the Gulag system...

part of the novel begins in 88 B.G. and covers the events after the Great Purge, leading up to the fateful Battle of Corrin. At the conclusion of the...

of increased repression include the Red Terror, Collectivization, the Great Purges, the Doctors' Plot, and others. The secret police forces conducted massacres...

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...

The NKVD is known for political repression and for carrying out the Great Purge under Joseph Stalin. It was led by Genrikh Yagoda, Nikolai Yezhov, and...

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...

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, Second...