Слайд 2Reasons for terror
Distract people from economic failures
Obtain cheap working force for national
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projects
Eliminate the opposition
Re-write the history of revolution
Effective control of population
Remove those who may be obstacles in case of war
Слайд 3Why Unnecessary Purges
Whole Country
Urgency
Paranoia
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Слайд 4How terror was conducted
Sekret police (OGPU(1922)NKVD(1934)
Global fear of enemy from within
An atmosphere
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of suspence
Immidiate reason – assassination of Kirov
Слайд 5Great Purges
Purge Zero (1921 – menshevics expelled from party, 1932-reyutin platform)
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Слайд 61st Moscow trial
When – August 1936
Who – Zinoviev and Kamenev
Accusation - Trotskyite-Kamenevite-Zinovievite-Leftist-Counter-Revolutionary
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Bloc
Assassination of Kirov and plot to kill Stalin
Слайд 72nd Moscow trial
When – January 1937
Who – Karl Radek, Yuri Piatakov and
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Grigory Sokolnikov
Accusation – “anti-Soviet Trotskyite-centre“
Plotted with Trotsky and Nazi Germany to overthrow government
Слайд 83rd Moscow Trial
When – March 1938
Who – Nikolay Buharin, Alexei Rykov ,
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Christian Rakovsky, Nikolai Krestinsky and Genrikh Yagoda
Accused of – Plot to kill Lenin and Stalin, posoning of Gorky, help Germany to divide russia etc