The purges
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- Created on: 08-04-15 17:53
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- The Purges
- 1928
- 55 engineers put on trial (5 shot, 49 imprisoned
- 1932
- Ryutin (opposed stalin's methods) put on trial and supporters
- Expelled from party- exiled
- Ryutin (opposed stalin's methods) put on trial and supporters
- 1935
- After murder of Kirov, thousands of communist party members were arrested
- 40,000 in Leningrad alone
- After murder of Kirov, thousands of communist party members were arrested
- 1936
- 'Show trials' of the old bolsheviks
- Opposition leaders were arrested and confessedto plotting after NKVD (secret police)
- 1937
- Remove of any opposition of red army + ensure total obedience
- Generals were shot and arrested
- By 1941 almost 90% of all soviet generals had been purged
- 1938
- Almost every party state leader in soviet republics had been purged
- Called a halt to thepurges
- Blamed the secret police (purged them to remove knowlege)
- 1940
- Trotsky was murdered by one of Stalin's agents in mexico
- Show trials
- The accused were put on trial in full view of the world
- Forced to confess to a range of crimes, including a plott o kill lenin
- Physically and psychologically tortured by the secret police
- Threatened their families with imprisonment or death
- Gave Stalin a reason to kill people (justified it)
- Effects
- Military
- Army and navy weakened
- Almost led to defeat in 1941 against Hitler's army
- Political
- Old Bolsheviks removed
- expelled from communist party
- Social
- families fell apart- turned against each other
- Children left on the street
- psycological
- Fear
- No trust
- No one felt secure
- Economic
- Job losses
- Able workers were killed/ arrested
- Quality of produce decreased
- Military
- 1928
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