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Key Stats - Russia purges Flashcards

1
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How many people were purged in the total pop?

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1 /18

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2
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Military purges?

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35,000 officials purged
Tukhachevsky killed
14/16 high-ranking generals shot
3/5 marshals shot

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3
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Decree Against Terrorist Acts

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Dec 1st 1934

10,000 deported from Leningrad to gulags
3,000 imprisoned / executed

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4
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By 1937…

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18 million in gulags

10 million dead

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5
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1934 conference…

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1108 out of 1996 delegates killed by 1937

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1928…

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100,000 passive party members purged

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7
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By 1932… Ryutin…

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1 million Ryutinites expelled from party

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8
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Under Yezhov…

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Gulags expanded by 685,000

Around 1/5 died due to malnutrition / starvation / exhaustion

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9
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Stalin / Molotov / Zhdanov execution lists…

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Stalin signed 357
Molotov signed 372 - more than Stalin
Zhdanov signed 176

Stalin responsible for over 40,000 deaths. 90% confirmed to be shot

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10
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Under Yezhov, political purges:

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Over 50% of Supreme Soviet (parliament) stripped of their titles / imprisoned / executed / gulag

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11
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How many other generals were shot with Tukhachevsky?

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8

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12
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How many of Tukhachevsky’s trial judges were later executed…

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5 out of 8

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13
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What was Yagoda demoted for?

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Told Stalin that the general pop didn’t like purges - Stalin enraged
Also didn’t hunt down Bukharin quickly enough

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14
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When did the purges end?

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November 17th 1938

Issue decreed to end execution / imprisonments /arrests

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When was Tukhachevsky secretly arrested?

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May 22nd 1937

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16
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Who was Yagoda’s former boss that he poisoned?

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Menzhinsky

17
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Order 00447 brought about…

Executions carried out in batches…

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“revolutionary justice”
an efficient form of ‘justice’
EXECUTIONS CARRIED OUT IN BATCHES OF 100

18
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Ryutin criticised Stalin…

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“evil genius”

“personal dictatorship”

“Stalin and the crisis of the proletarian dictatorship”

to put the name stalin next to marx, engels and lenin is to mock at marx, engels and lenin

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1934: 17th Party Congress…

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Multiple provincial delegates urged Kirov to take over as General Secretary.

Allegedly, abnormalities in voting. Ballot boxes went missing, over 100 ballots found with Stalin’s name crossed out, replaced with Kirov’s

20
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1935 - 1936…

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‘Exchange of Party Cards’ led to half a million being expelled from party

21
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Who wrote the Stalin Constitution of 1936?

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Bukharin & Radek

22
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Who wrote the Stalin Constitution of 1936?

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Radek & Bukharin

23
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Byelorussian USSR (Belarus) estimated to have…

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2,000 Category I prisoners
10,000 Category II prisoners

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