The Great Terror 1936-1938
So the Great Terror consisted of:
1. 3 Moscow Show Trials which removed older high-profile Communists (which is what this mindmap is focused on)
2. The NKVD was reorganised
3. Mass murder in society
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- Created on: 02-04-13 12:50
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- The Great Terror: 1936-1938
- 1. Kirov's murder
- After 4pm: 1st December 1934
- Stalin makes the most of Kirov's murder.
- Purges
- Nikolayev admitted to assasinating Kirov, although stated that the NKVD made him!
- 1st Show Trial: August 1936
- Kamenev & Zonoviev & 14 others
- Trial of the Suxteen
- Pleaded innocence, sending Stalin multiple letters
- Persuaded to confess as thought to have been promised a pardon
- Former allies disappeared with no trial...
- Trial of the Suxteen
- Imprisoned for over a year before appearing at the trial, charged with:
- Assassination of Kirov
- Plot to disrupt five-year plans
- Conspiring with foreign powers to overthrow Government
- Kamenev & Zonoviev & 14 others
- 2nd Show Trial: January 1937
- Trial of the Seventeen
- 13 were executed while the remaining 4 remained in Gulags & shortly afterwards perished.
- Dealt with Trotsky's former allies. Charged with:
- Trial of the Seventeen
- 13 were executed while the remaining 4 remained in Gulags & shortly afterwards perished.
- Plotting with foreign powers
- Terrorism
- Sabotage & contact with Trotsky
- Trial of the Seventeen
- Victims of Yexhov's 'conveyor belt system' of interrogation
- Relentlessly tortured, sleep deprived & questioned until they confessed
- Evidence proved to be forged by the NKVD (like the 1st trial)
- e.g. one accused already in prison & so could not have done the accused.
- Trial of the Seventeen
- 3rd Trial: March 1938
- Trial of the Tewenty-one
- Trial of Bukharin, Rykov & their 'accomplices'. accused of:
- Trial of the Tewenty-one
- Attempting to assasinate Lenin
- Bukharin totrured through threat to execute wife 7 newborn baby
- Admitted to 'political responsibility' for crimes but NEVER acknowledged guilt for actual events that had occured
- NEVER confessed to attempting to assasinate Lenin
- Sent Stalin a letter offering to kill Trotsky: "...go to America & smash Trotsky's face in."
- Confessed as felt this was the last way to dedicate himself to the party. he still felt that Communism could work even though he hated Stalin
- "Bukharin and Ryhov died with curses against Stalin on their lips. They died standing up-- not grovelling on the cellar floor, weeping for mercy, like Zonoviev and Kamenev"
- 1. Kirov's murder
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