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Female Soviet aviators of the 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment ("Night Witches"), 1943. Snipers Natalya Kovshova and Mariya Polivanova became posthumous heroines of the Soviet Union after committing suicide in battle to avoid capture by German forces. Soviet women played an important role in World War II (whose Eastern Front was known as the ...
Soviet famine of 1932–1933, with areas where the effects of famine were most severe shaded. The deaths of 5.7 [26] to perhaps 7.0 million people [27] [28] in the Soviet famine of 1932–1933 and Soviet collectivization of agriculture are included among the victims of repression during the period of Stalin by some historians.
Official figures put the total number of documentable executions during the years 1937 and 1938 at 681,692, [171] [172] in addition to 116,000 deaths in the Gulag, [1] and 2,000 unofficially killed in non-article 58 shootings; [1] whereas the total estimate of deaths brought about by Soviet repression during the Great Purge ranges from 950,000 ...
The post-Soviet government of Russia puts the Soviet war losses at 26.6 million, [2] on the basis of the 1993 study by the Russian Academy of Sciences, including people dying as a result of effects of the war. [3] [4] [5] This includes 8,668,400 military deaths as calculated by the Russian Ministry of Defence. [2] [6] [7]
Map of Tomsk Oblast with Nazino labelled. The Nazino tragedy (Russian: Назинская трагедия, romanized: Nazinskaya tragediya) was the mass murder and mass deportation of around 6,700 prisoners to Nazino Island, [1] located on the Ob River in West Siberian Krai, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union (now Tomsk Oblast, Russia), in May 1933.
The number of women in Russian politics has increased; at the federal level, this is partially due to electoral victories by Women of Russia bloc in the Duma. [59] The 1990s saw an increase in female legislators; another notable increase occurred during the 2007 elections, when every major political party increased its number of female ...
The first Party purge of the Joseph Stalin era took place in 1929–1930 in accordance with a resolution of the XVI Party Conference. [4] Purges became deadly under Stalin. More than 10 percent of the party members were purged. At the same time, a significant number of new industrial workers joined the Party.
Category:Great Purge victims. Category. : Great Purge victims. People who were killed in Joseph Stalin 's Great Purge (1937–1938) and in follow-ups and cleanups. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Victims of the Great Purge.