Stalin's Terror 1923 to 53

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  • 1923 -1939
    • Terror Under Stalin
      • 1945 - 1953
        • Government Changes
          • Party no longer supervised Government
            • No Party Congress and only 6 CC meetings over 8 years
        • Societal Changes
          • Zhadnovchina- 1946 cultural purge condemning all Western things as bourgeoisie.
            • Works by Zoshcheko, Ahmatov and Pasternak banned
              • Socialist realism became the norm in literature, art, music and film
                • If it was not sufficient it was banned, or authors publically recanted their errors
          • Anti-semitism grew, and Jewish works vanished
          • All schooling was carried out to Marxist principles
          • All Western influence was blocked
            • In 1947 Hotels and foreign marriages were banned
          • Purges
            • The disgraced were doctored from History, books and images
            • Leningrad Case 1949- arrest of independent officials
            • Mingrelian Case- 1951/2 Beria supporters
            • Doctors Plot
              • 1952
              • arrest and execution of hundreds of Doctors and Jews
    • NVKD
      • Eradicated opposition
    • Gulags
      • Millions sent to Gulags
        • Worked mining, construction, felling etc.
          • White Sea canal was built by hand. 25'000 died in one winter alone.
      • Expanded to hold common criminals and political prisoners
    • Show Trials
      • Shakty, 1928. 53 engineers accused of counter revolution after decline in production
        • 5 executed, and the rest sent to the GULAG system
      • Fear of economic downturn
  • Military hierarchy downgraded, with numerous officers demoted
    • Including Marshall Zhukov, who won the war

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