NKVD troika or Special troika (Russian: особая тройка, romanized: osobaya troyka), in Soviet history, were the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs...

chairmen-in-office NKVD troika, a commission of three for express judgment in the Soviet Union during the time of Joseph Stalin "The troika" during the U.S...

to be delivered to troikas for trials. The chairman of a troika was the chief of the corresponding territorial subdivision of NKVD (People's Commissar...

of thousands were executed by the NKVD.[citation needed] Formally, most of these people were convicted by NKVD troikas ("triplets") – special courts martial...

at the time, was often largely replaced with summary proceedings by NKVD troikas. Hundreds of thousands of victims were accused of various political crimes...

sentence to imprisonment for up to eight years. The abolition of many NKVD troikas in November 1938 saw the Special Council take over some of their functions...

pre-defined by Joseph Stalin and specified by decrees of Politburo CPSU. NKVD troikas' trials. The Volksgerichtshof (People's Court) of Nazi Germany that convicted...

by the "Local Special Troikas". September 17 NKVD Order 00606 On creation of Local Special Troikas. The "Local Special Troikas" became the primary method...

Central Committee of the Komsomol from 1921 to 1924, a member of the NKVD troika, the First Secretary of the Stalingrad Regional Committee of the Communist...

The Russian word troika thereby gained a new meaning: a quick, simplified trial by a committee of three subordinated to the NKVD troika—with sentencing...

Ре́денс, Polish: Stanisław Redens; 17 May 1892 – 21 January 1940) was a Soviet NKVD official, one of those responsible for conducting mass repressions under...

meant extrajudicial punishment. Soviet Union portal Special Council of the NKVD NKVD Troika Population transfer in the Soviet Union 101st kilometre v t e...

Hussein 2013 trial of Jang Song-thaek in North Korea Eastern Bloc politics NKVD troika, sentencing by extrajudicial commission Political trial, a criminal trial...

February 1921 – 7 November 1921 Mikhail Poliakov (become the one of NKVD troika) 11 November 1921 – 16 May 1924 Sakhib-Garey Said-Galiyev 16 May 1924...

"albums" and sent to the midrange NKVD offices for a stamp of approval by a troika (a three-man team; a communist official, NKVD leader, and party procurator)...

these, at least 111,091 members of the Polish minority were shot by NKVD troika. According to Bogdan Musiał, many were murdered in prison executions...

Soviet Gulag and it is thought he was condemned by an extrajudicial NKVD troika under NKVD Order No. 00447 to be executed during the 1930s Bolshevik purges...

– Pavel Florensky was shot dead after being sentenced by an extrajudicial NKVD troika to death. 1937 – Antonio Gramsci died during his imprisonment by Benito...

Lavrentiy Beria. Eventually, Mikeladze was sentenced to be shot by the NKVD troika. In a newly independent post-Soviet Georgia, his name has been given...

under control of Sevvostlag (a directorate of the Gulag), and the local NKVD troika used it as the second major place for the enforcement of their death...

client's guilt for granted..." Theory and decrees Soviet Decrees Show trial NKVD troika Burlaw court Organizations Ministry of Justice of the USSR Supreme Court...

Finnish Operation of the NKVD was a mass arrest, execution and deportations of persons of Finnish origin in the Soviet Union by the NKVD during the period of...

majority of Article 58 cases having been processed extrajudicially by NKVD troikas. In particular, the Military Collegium conducted the major Soviet show...

Earp, maiming the former and killing the latter. The NKVD troika and Special Council of the NKVD are examples from the history of the Soviet Union, where...

pronounced by a specially appointed three-person commission of officials, the NKVD troika. The exact number of executions is debated, with archival research suggesting...

population to the NKVD troika. Baghirov suggested approving Yuvelian Sumbatov, Teymur Guliyev, and Jahangir Akhundzade as members of the troika team in Azerbaijan...

Belarus – Article 63 (BSSR Penal Code). Anti-Soviet agitation Soviet law, NKVD troika Gulag, 101st kilometre Politics of the Soviet Union, Lenin's Hanging...

Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolshevik) and a NKVD troika for a few months in 1937 before he was arrested and executed as part...

Ukrainian National Theater in 1917. In 1938 he was executed in Odesa by the NKVD troika on accusations of belonging to the Ukrainian militarist and nationalist...

and chief, and chief of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) under Joseph Stalin during the Second World War, and promoted to deputy...