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THE STALIN REVOLUTION (CON’T) THE GREAT TERROR
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THE STALIN REVOLUTION (CON’T) THE GREAT TERROR Origins and Consequences Purge of Party members Targets: Sergei Kirov, killed Dec. 1934 Lev Kamenev, executed 1936 Grigorii Zinoviev, executed 1936 Stalin accuses at a “show trial”
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THE STALIN REVOLUTION (CON’T) THE GREAT TERROR Origins and Consequences Army (especially officers) Targets: Marshal Mikhail Tukhashevky, executed 1937
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THE STALIN REVOLUTION (CON’T) THE GREAT TERROR Origins and Consequences Intellectuals, artists, writers, religious figures Targets: Poet Osip Mandelstam, executed 1938
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THE STALIN REVOLUTION (CON’T) THE GREAT TERROR Origins and Consequences Those who expressed opposition Targets: Arrival at the GULAG
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THE STALIN REVOLUTION (CON’T) THE GREAT TERROR Origins and Consequences NKVD Targets: Lavrenti Beria Nikolai Ezhov, head of the NKVD, executed 1939 “Ezhovshchina”
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THE STALIN REVOLUTION (CON’T) THE GREAT TERROR Numbers of victims Myths & Controversies:
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THE STALIN REVOLUTION (CON’T) THE GREAT TERROR Reduced country to stunned silence Myths & Controversies: “Black Ravens” Victims innocent of any opposition to Stalin Workers vote for death penalty
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THE STALIN REVOLUTION (CON’T) THE GREAT TERROR Terror entirely directed from center (i.e. by Stalin) Myths & Controversies: Stalin signing death warrant Purge committee
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THE STALIN REVOLUTION (CON’T) THE GREAT TERROR Creation of new consciousness Myths & Controversies:
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THE STALIN REVOLUTION (CON’T) THE GREAT TERROR Myths & Controversies: Break with international communism Break with Marxism-Leninism
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