Terror Flashcards
When was Kirov murdered
1st December 1934
When was shakty trial
1928
When was Ryutin expelled
1932
When was the metro vickers trial
1933
When was industrial party show trial
1930
Who was accused of the assassination
Nikolayev
How many arrests were their for Kirov’s murder and what was interesting about them
104 arrests
Enemies of Stalin, trotsky and zinoviev
Why might Stalin target Kirov
1934 - 17th party congress decided to make Kirov joint general secretary
What decree was made following kirovs murder
Decree against terrorists acts
How many suspected enemies were executed
3000
Who replaced Kirov
Andrei Zhandov
How many attended the 17th party Congress
1996
How many attendees of the 17th party Congress were executed
In the next 3 years 1108 were executed
What was the NKVD order 0047
Nkvd units to search out former Kulacks, criminals and other anti soviet elements
What categories were the kulacks separated into
Death by shooting
Gulag labour camps
When was order 0047 issued
July 1937
How many arrests and people sent to gulags were there by 1937
Aug-1937
100,000 arrests
14,000 sent to gulags
What percentage of officials were shot between 1937-38
74%
By 1939, what were the Bolshevik members like
Less than 10% of members had joined before 1920 and less than a 1/4 survived the purge
How many officers were shot or dismissed
23,000
What document did ryutin circulate
Stalin and the crisis of the proletariat dictatorship
Or the Ryutin platform
When was routine document released and how long was it
March 1932
200pg
What were some of the party branded as by 1934
1/5 of the party branded as Ryutins
How long was Ryutin imprisoned for
10 years
How many votes did Kirov and Stalin receive
Kirov-1225
Stalin-927
What were miners at the shakty mine accused of doing
Counter revolutionary activity
What were Mensheviks and SRs accused of
Sabotage
When were lameness and zinoviev imprisoned
1935
When was the trial of the 16
1936
Who did the trial of the 16 involve
Zinoviev, Kamenev and 14 of their supporters
What were they accused of in the trial of the 16
Kirovs murder and plotting to disrupt the 5 year plan
Who were involved in the trial of the 17
Trotsky’s former supporters
When was the trial of the 17
1937
What were the 17 accused of
Plotting with foreign powers, terrorism and contact with trotsky
When was the trial of the 21
1938
Who is involved in the trial of the 21
Bukharin and his supporters
What were the 21 accused of
Trying to overthrow socialism and murder Kirov
Bukharin charged with attempting to assassinate Lenin
When was the Stalin constitution
1936
What did Stalin’s constitution declare
Socialism had been achieved and the next step was communism
What did Stalin’s constitution promise
Local autonomy to ethnic groups and support for national cultures and languages
4 yearly elections
What was the main intention of the Stalin constitution
To impress foreigners
When was the Yezhovchina
1936-38
How many enemies of the party were convicted in 1934-38
330,000
When was the gigantic conspiracy in the army announce
May 1937
What was the result of the gigantic conspiracy
Tukhachevsky
How many war commissars were removed from office
11
How many were executed from the supreme military council
80
How many army commanders were removed
14/16
How many commissioned officers were imprisoned or shot
35,000
How many anti soviet people were on the list
250,000
When was the nkvd order 00447
1937
How many were arrested in Russia
1 in every 8
