USSR Political Intolerance
- Created by: Joe Manktelow
- Created on: 06-05-13 15:24
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- Political Intolerance
- Purges
- Stage One: Known Opponents
- Arrested Zinoviev and Kamenev, after 18 months executed.
- Trotsky was assasssinatedin Mexico 1940 by Stalin's agent.
- Took revenge on members of 17th Party Congress. Which had preferred Kirov.
- 98/139 members of Central Committee at the Congress were executed.
- 1108/1996 delegates in attendance were also executed.
- Stage Two: Widespread purges
- Regional Communist parties purged.
- In Georgia between 1936-38 30,000 officials arrested and 10,000 executed.
- All Ukrainian Politburo members were arrested.
- Armed forces purged.
- Around 1/2 Officer Corps arrested, 5000 executed. (30,000 released following the Winter War with Finland).
- 3/5th's of Soviet Marshals executed.
- KGB admits to deaths of around 680,000 political prisoners.
- Roughly 1/3 Leningrad citizens were arrested.
- 1/18 of the total population arrested overall.
- By 1941, the Gulags contained around 8 million prisoners serving an average of 10 years with high mortality rate.
- Regional Communist parties purged.
- Great Purges 1936-38.
- Stage One: Known Opponents
- Why it started.
- Used murder of Kirov to issue Emergency Decree against Terrorism
- Gave NKVD power to arrest, question torture and execute without trial of anyone suspected of terrorist activities.
- Lenin removed alternative ideas within the party: Decree Against Factionalism.
- Used murder of Kirov to issue Emergency Decree against Terrorism
- Purges
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