Yezhovschina Flashcards
When was the Yezhovschina?
1936-1938
What did the Yezhovschina inscrease
Stalin’s political dominance / personal dictatorship
What position was Stalin in by 1938
One of supreme power
Give 4 evidences of an intensification of terror
Trial of 16
Trial of 17
Trial of 18
Military purge
How many of the officer corps were purged as part of the military purge?
50%
How many soldiers were purged
34,000
How many war commissars were purged
All 11
How many Marshals of the Soviet Union were purged
2
How many members were removed from the party between 1936-38
850,000
How many recruits since 1920 survive the purges?
Less than a quarter
How many party members were convicted of being enemies of the people between 1934-38
330,000
What order did Yezhov write up?
NKVD order 00447
When was order 00447 passed?
1937
What did the NKVD order include?
An arbitrary arrest quota
What was the number of the arbitrary arrest quota?
259,450
What percentage of the people arrested were to be shot?
28%
What would happen to the remainder of those arrested who weren’t shot
8-10 years in the gulags
How many had been arrested one month after NKVD order 00447 and how many were sent to gulags
100,000
14,000
Give 3 examples of groups targeted
Peasants, burzhui, kulaks
What is it important to note?
The majority of the population was not directly targeted
What was the quota of people to be shot in Leningrad?
4,000
What was the quota of people to be exiled in Leningrad
10,000
