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Stalin Terror - Coggle Diagram
Stalin Terror
The Great Terror
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35,000 military officers imprisoned or shot
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order 447 targeted any 'anti-Soviet elements', over 1,000,000 executed
Aims
Stalin was paranoid due to Lenin's testament, so wanted to tighten control
Kirov beat Stalin in votes, so had to establish himself as a strong leader
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Chiefs
Yagoda 1934-36
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in charge of show trialing, which was how he later died in 38
Yezhov 1936-38
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used the troika, quotas and denunciations
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NKVD
during late 1930s, a million executed
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