Other explanations for the purges
Other reasons for the purges other than well dominance over the Russian people!
- Created by: Dracupine
- Created on: 07-04-13 12:18
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- Other explanations for the purges
- Controlling an unstable society
- Wanted to remove anybody who might oppose his foreign policy
- Five-Year Plans caused instability
- Mass urbanisaton created social tensions & violence in over-crowded cities.
- Lacking basic facilities & services
- Huge hostility in cities & countryside towards Communist party Gov. worried about loss of control in 'Quick sand Society'
- Purges to stifle criticism of leadership. keeping citizens working. Campaign helped criticize officials
- Deflecting blame for economic problems
- Wanted to shake up managers & economic administrators workers happy to blame managers.
- Scapegoat needed for economic failures. 'Sabotage & wrecking' used
- Five-Year Plans falling behind. Down turn in Soviet economy after 1936 as result of technical problems
- Increasing control over the party
- Party often did not want to look for Kulaks as valuable men in the countryside
- Show Trials used to threaten members & result in higher likelihood to obey orders
- Encouraged lower levels to criticise boss's. led to accusations out of control.
- Responding to the threat of war
- Hitler as Chancellor of Germany made war imminent
- His anti-Communism led to his wanting 'living space' in these regions
- Purges= labour to make weapons & armament
- Increasing pressure of developing armament
- Need to make weapons & armament to fight war
- Stalin convinced that there was a good chance of war
- Hitler as Chancellor of Germany made war imminent
- Consolidating the power of the NKVD
- Places like Moscow operated own fiefdoms like a mafia & used purges to own advantage
- Divisions & power struggles within institution
- 1st Five-Year Plan= NKVD looked less indispensable. Purges = raise & allow leading of institution in Soviet system
- Argument state had for Kirov's murder
- Contribution to rising victims & forced confessions which led to further denunciations
- Supplying slave labour
- Stalin needed money these industries earned from foreign exports to but in western technology
- Gulags provided free labour/ slaves to carry out dangerous work such as logging & gold- mining in inhospitable regions.
- Controlling an unstable society
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