Great Purge
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title:
Great Purge
text:
The Great Purge, or the Great Terror, also known as the Year of '37 and the Yezhovshchina, was Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin's campaign to consolidate power over the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Soviet state. The purges also sought to remove the remaining influence of Leon Trotsky. The term great purge was popularized by the historian Robert Conquest in his 1968 book The Great Terror, whose title was an allusion to the French Revolution's Reign of Terror. The purges were larg
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1936–1938 campaign in the Soviet Union
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge
date created:
2002-10-25T18:47:30Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T21:34:08Z
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