causes of the great terror
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- Created on: 17-04-17 13:25
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- Causes of the Great Terror
- Lenin's police state
- Great Terror carried out by NKVD
- Lenin used secret police against political enemies
- Stalin turned the NKVD against the Comms (last group that could threaten him)
- Stalin's paranoia
- Worried he would suffer a fall like Zin, Kam, Buk and Trot
- Feared opp from those loyal to his rivals
- Red Army established by Trotsky
- Economics
- Stalin needed a scapegoat for failings of 5YP
- Needed larger labour force-people arrested in Terror sent to gulags
- The Congress of Victors, 1934
- Elections for new Central Committee-Stalin lost to Kirov
- Kirov urged to stand up against Stalin
- Confirmed to Stalin that people wanted a new leader
- Kirov's murder
- 1934-Kirov murdered by a lone gunman
- Argued that murder was proof of widespread conspiracy
- Murder was a trigger for the Great Terror
- Lenin's police state
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