Yezhozshchina

Question 1

New terror intensity in 1937

Answer 1

NKVD order 00447 approved committees to search out ‘former Kulaks, criminals and other anti-soviet elements’, some to be immediately shot, had quotas.

Question 2

Implementation of order 00447

Answer 2

within a month over 100 000 had been arrested, by autumn pressure so great NKVD began selecting people almost at random.

Question 3

Use of informers

Answer 3

Estimated one informer to every 400 people.

Question 4

Military purge

Answer 4

Began 1937 with arrest of Tukhachevsky, him and 6 other commanders executed, further red army purge, c50% of all officer corps executed or imprisoned.

Question 5

Resistance to executions

Answer 5

1937-38 up to 74 military officials shot for refusing to approve execution of people they believed innocent.

Question 6

Purge of party members

Answer 6

A third of all party members had been purged by end of 1938.

Question 7

How many in Gulags by end of 1938

Answer 7

Estimated between 5.5 and 9.5 million.

Question 8

Economic effect on nationalities

Answer 8

V bad, e/g/ Uzbekistan’s agriculture decimated as had to supply cotton to Russia, Ukraine bad bad bad.

Question 9

When Trotsky killed

Answer 9

1940

Question 10

Treatment of Germans

Answer 10

Stalin said all should be arrested, over 56000 arrested 1937, in 1941 over 400 000 Volga Germans deported to Siberia.

Question 11

The Kalmyks

Answer 11

in 1941 Operation Ulussy over 97 000 Kalmyk people deported, around half died before being allowed to return in 1957.

Question 12

First mass deportation

Answer 12

Of Koreans based on accusations they were Japanese spies, led to death of around 50 000 due to starvation and disease on way.