Purge of Party members and national minorities
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Purge of Party members
- Lower-ranking Party members were encouraged to criticise and denounce those in higher positions
- Party members were accused of anti-Soviet actions such as supporting right-wing economic policy in the 1920s
- Party secretaries and higher officials accused those below them of being counter-revolutionaries as a means of showing how loyal they were to the regime
- By the end of 1938, a third of all Party members had been purged
National minorities
- Stalin assumed…
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