Impacts of the Great Terror
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- Impacts of the Great Terror/Purge
- ECONOMIC
- 1936: the removal of Kirov's supporters from the POLITBURO allowed Stalin to change the direction of the 2nd Five-Year Plan.
- Industrial managers lied about their production figures to avoid the NKVD.
- PURGES OF GOSPLAN meant that the 3rd Five-Year Plan was never published.
- Led to further confusion in industry.
- The removal of local managers reduced the efficiency of Russia's industry.
- POLITICAL
- The Consolidation of Stalin's power
- The Moscow Show Trials removed Stalin's rivals from the 1920s.
- Removal of Kirov's supporters eliminated those who wanted to moderate some aspects of Stalin's policies.
- Stalin was able to deflect criticism of his economic policy by accusing others of sabotaging the Five-Year Plans.
- The Communist Party
- Russian government administration ground to a halt as the officials were so scared of being purged that they stopped making decisions.
- Junior members of the Communist Party, who were more loyal to Stalin, were promoted as their bosses were purged.
- The Consolidation of Stalin's power
- SOCIAL
- Family Life
- Approximately 10% of adult males fell victim to the Terror.
- 95% of those arrested were men, the majority of whom were aged between 30 and 45 and were husbands and fathers.
- The children of those arrested were persecuted and humiliated at school and in Komsomol.
- Escaping the Terror
- People at risk moved away from their hometowns and took on new identities as industrial workers.
- The daughters of victims of the Terror attempted to begin new lives by marrying members of the working class
- Some local officials could be bribed to issue new identity papers establishing a new working-class identity.
- The Terror from Below
- Stakhanovites played a leading role in the Terror and used it as an opportunity to remove their managers and gain promotion
- Unscrupulous workers would inform on their neighbours and colleagues in order to get the properties that were vacated as a result of the purges.
- Family Life
- ECONOMIC
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