STALIN POLICE STATE
- Created by: ameliaindiaallen
- Created on: 18-04-19 12:45
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- POLICE STATE
- Labour / prison camps
- Instrumental in meeting the industrial and agricultural production targets
- Institutions of punishment
- Long working hours
- 14 hours per day
- High mortality rates
- Food rations
- Highly repressive tool
- Effective way of disposing those who posed a threat
- To stamp out opposition
- Warning message
- NKVD
- To combat opposition
- Created a permanent structure of terror
- Crucial in imposing purges
- Administered the Gulags
- 40m + were sent to these camps in the Stalinist era
- Stalin suspected the NKVD of conspiracy
- By WW2, NKVD had been purged of 20,000 members
- MILITARY
- Red Army
- Used for grain requisitioning
- As a part of Collectivisation
- Helped to impose purges
- Key role in the Great Terror
- Military leadership
- Great Purge 1936-38
- By the end, 40% had been removed
- Not as effective
- AIMS
- To eliminate opposition
- Using force to consolidate Stalin's power
- Strengthen government authority
- Tantamount to terrorising the population
- Highly effective
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