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GPU- when?

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Replaced Cheka by 1923

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GPU- What did it become?

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1934- NKVD

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Arrests- when?

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In the middle of the night to avoid conflict

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Where were they taken to?

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Lubyanka

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How were confessions gained?

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Torture and the promise that families would be spared (even though this was not always kept)

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Yagoda- when?

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1934

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Yagoda- what happened to the Gulag?

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Transformed into a vast system of forced labour to support industrialisation

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Yagoda- How did he use his influence with Stalin?

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Ensured no intervention from regular courts

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Yagoda- What did the emphasis change to?

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Ideology to economy

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Yagoda- What were the camps used for?

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Pool of labour for economic resources. No free will & hostile environment

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Yagoda- Achievements

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White Sea Canal

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Yagoda- What happened to him?

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1936- Accused of incompetence in safeguarding Kirov so shot

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Yezhov- About

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Nicknamed the ‘bloody dwarf’, he was 5 foot tall and enjoyed personally torturing suspects- once attended a Politburo meeting with cuffs of his shirt covered in fresh blood

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Yezhov- Main skill

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Framing purges in ideological terms

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Yezhov- Achievements

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Sped up process of arrest, trial and imprisonment. E’g’ courts (Troikas) made up of 3 people. 1937- Karelian Troika processed 231 prisoners each day

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Yezhov- use of gulags

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Considered them to be underused, number of inmates and deaths increased considerably

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Yezhov- quotas date

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July 1934

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Yezhov- surveillance of general public

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Increased. Plain clothed police offices used and informers from general public collected info

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Yezhov- Staff

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Number of detectives quadrupled and extra staff employed to torture subjects

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Yezhov- Opponents

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Widened to anyone who did not show sufficient commitment to the revolutionary cause. NKVD even had own membership purged

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Yezhov- What happened to him?

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Dismissed 1938 for being responsible for excess of purges. Stalin worried about demoralising effect on population as war loomed

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