Reasons for Purges

Question 1

Name 2 Reasons regarding Stalin for the purges

Answer 1

Stalin’s personality - deeply suspicious and paranoid

Stalin’s motives - threatened by opposition, wanted absolute power

Question 2

Name 3 other reasons for the purges

Answer 2

• problems within the party
• economic difficulties
• social instability
• the position of the NKVD
• the Gulag
• threat from Germany