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Adoption of plans for the mass repressions against the "social base" of the potential aggressors, start of purging the "opposition" from the "elites". July 1937 - October 1938 Mass repressions against " kulaks ", "dangerous" ethnic minorities, family members of opposition members, military officers, Saboteurs in agriculture and industry.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (a Soviet Army officer who became a prisoner for a decade in the Gulag system) presents in The Gulag Archipelago his view of the timeline of all the Leninist and Stalinist purges (1918–1956), in which the 1936–1938 purge may have been simply the one that got the most attention from people in a position to record its ...
The Great Purge ended in 1939. In October 1940 the NKVD (People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs), under its new chief Lavrentiy Beria, started a new purge that initially hit the People's Commissariat of Ammunition, People's Commissariat of Aviation Industry, and People's Commissariat of Armaments. High-level officials admitted guilt ...
The Purge is an American anthology media franchise centered on a series of dystopian action horror films distributed by Universal Pictures and produced by Blumhouse Productions and Platinum Dunes, which are written and in some cases also directed by James DeMonaco, who was inspired by a Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "The Return of the Archons".
Timelines describe the events that occurred before another event, leading up to it, causing it, and also those that occurred right afterward that were attributable to it. Timelines are often bulleted lists or tables.
The first critical inquiry into the Great Purge outside the Soviet Union had been made as early as 1937 by the Dewey Commission, which published its findings in the form of a 422-page book entitled Not Guilty (this title referred to the people who had been charged with various crimes by Joseph Stalin's government and therefore purged); the Dewey Commission found them not guilty.
The two-season Purge series takes place in the years between Anarchy and The Purge: Election Year. The show’s first season follows a group of Americans on Purge Night 2027 as they struggle to ...
The Red Purge emerged from rising Cold War tensions and the Red Scare after World War II, [9] [10] and was a significant element within a broader "Reverse Course" in Occupation policies. [11] The Red Purge reached a peak following the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950, [ 11 ] when communist China supported North Korea.