The Purges
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- Created on: 30-04-13 20:46
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- The purges
- 1928 Donbass mining region accused of sabotage first 5YP
- Kirovs murder 1934
- was seen as Stalins successor
- Leader of Leningrad communist party
- beginning of the purges
- was seen as Stalins successor
- controlled by secret police
- Ryutin verbally attacked stalin 1933-1934 one million members of CPSU ecxcluded for being Ryutinites
- Paranoia
- removed all opposition
- Purge of the party removed rivals
- purge of the army (Trotsky had been in charge)
- Purge of Yagoda (1936) had sided with Bukharin in 1928
- scapegoat for 5 year plans blamed the people
- those arrested used as slave labour
- threatened in popularity by Kirov
- 1936 Constitution
- New laws for Russia confirming Stalin and the communist control
- Guranteed freedom of speech, equal rights and freedom of press and elections every 4 years but the communists controlled these areas
- 1. 3 moscow show trials - trial of the 16,17 and 21 PURGE OF THE PARTY
- Trial of the 16 purging of the left Zinoviev Kamanev and 14 others - charged with Kirovs murder - show trials
- Trial of the 21 purging of the right Bukharin and Rykov and 18 others
- 2. NKVD reorganised and Yagoda replaced 1936 PURGE OF THE ARMED FORCES
- 3/5 marshalls dismissed
- All naval admirals shot
- All bar one pilot
- 1/4 commissioned officer corps
- 3. Mass murder THE PURGE OF THE PEOPLE
- 1 in every 8 arrested
- people turn in friends family to protect themselves
- NKVD had quotas of people to remove
- Results
- political and social weapon
- 1933-1944 one million arrested
- 1937 7/8million sent to labour camps
- 1939 - 1million shot
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