Yezhovshchina

Question 1

1. How many adult men were arrested by the NKVD between 1937 and 38?
   - What % of the male adult population was this?
2. Of these, around how many were deported.
   - Over how many were executed?
3. Which social group did the terror focus on?
   - Why?
4. What % of those targeted were men?

Answer 1

1. 1.5 million.
   - Around 10%.
2. 635,000.
   - 680,000.
3. Urban educated men between ages 30 and 45 holding senior positions in govt.
   - Most likely to oppose Stalin.
4. 95%.

Question 2

1. Why did the terror accelerate and expand in part?
2. What did NKVD agents demand?
3. At a local level, workers and peasants organised their own what?
   - Where were communist officials publicly tried for misusing govt funds?

Answer 2

1. Popular participation.
2. Higher targets.
3. Show Trials.
   - Kazan.

Question 3

1. The terror removed everyone from govt who had what? (2)
2. Who did Stalin replace these officials with?
3. However, who did Stalin remove which caused economic problems? (2)
4. What trial was Yagoda tried as part of?
   - Yezhov and over 300 of his closest associates were ____ in ____.

Answer 3

1. Either fought in the C.W. or worked with Lenin.
2. His own supporters.
3. Experts needed to run his command economy.
4. Trial of the 21.
   - Shot in 1940.