Great Purge | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-23

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00:01:25 1 Introduction
00:04:14 2 Background
00:10:04 3 Moscow Trials
00:10:14 3.1 First and Second Moscow Trials
00:14:06 3.1.1 Dewey Commission
00:16:18 3.1.2 Implication of the Rightists
00:17:53 3.2 Third Moscow Trial
00:20:11 3.2.1 Bukharin's confession
00:23:10 4 Purge of the army
00:24:51 5 The wider purge
00:27:14 5.1 Intelligentsia
00:27:58 5.2 Ex-kulaks and other "anti-Soviet elements"
00:34:04 5.3 Campaigns targeting nationalities
00:36:46 5.4 Western émigré victims
00:37:37 5.5 Executions of GULAG inmates
00:38:25 5.6 Mongolian Great Purge
00:39:15 5.7 Xinjiang Great Purge
00:40:14 5.8 Timeline of the Great Purge
00:41:29 6 End of The Great Purge
00:45:07 7 Western reactions
00:47:52 8 Rehabilitation
00:49:59 9 Number of people executed
00:51:31 10 Stalin's role
00:54:12 11 Soviet investigation commissions
00:56:49 12 Mass graves and memorials
00:58:26 13 Historical interpretations
01:00:24 14 See also
01:01:12 15 Notes
01:01:20 16 References and further reading
01:01:31 16.1 Books
01:11:32 16.2 Film
01:11:53 17 External links



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SUMMARY
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The Great Purge or the Great Terror (Russian: Большой террор) was a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union which occurred from 1936 to 1938. It involved a large-scale purge of the Communist Party and government officials, repression of wealthy landlords and the Red Army leadership, widespread police surveillance, suspicion of saboteurs, counter-revolutionaries, imprisonment, and arbitrary executions. In Russian historiography, the period of the most intense purge, 1937–1938, is called Yezhovshchina (literally, "Yezhov phenomenon", commonly translated as "times of Yezhov" or "doings of Yezhov"), after Nikolai Yezhov, the head of the Soviet secret police, the NKVD, who was executed a year after the purge. Modern historical studies estimate the total number of deaths due to Stalinist repression in 1937–38 to be between 681,692 and 1,200,000.In the Western world, Robert Conquest's 1968 book The Great Terror popularized that phrase. Conquest's title was in turn an allusion to the period called the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution (French: la Terreur, and, from June to July 1794, la Grande Terreur, the Great Terror).