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KHRUSHCHEV
Beria removed - accused of colluding with foreign powers (selling secrets) - marks the end of the terror and the beginning of de-stalinisation
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STALIN
Great Purge: Removed members of the gov that remembered what happened to Lenin (Kirov assassinated, Zinoviev/Kavenev purged in trial of 16, Bukarin removed, anyone on the right, trial of 17 removed the Trotskites. NKVD is purged.
Great Terror:Yezhov head of NKVD (summer of 1934), 10 million people killed, conveyer belt killing to avoid dissent, Stalin justifies the terror by saying it was 'sharpening the class struggle'.
The NKVD was purged to remove any party members from the Leninist era, recruits therefore owed allegiance to Stalin
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Consequences: He emerged stronger than ever, but weaker in some sense (more paranoid and has fewer, and less experienced generals)
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Invasion of Russia in WWII - 1941 - no experts, third 5YP plans are not met
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BREZHNEV
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Andropov's Methods: KGB Order 0051 (increase surveillance and action against people acting against the regime)
KGB not allowed to accept gifts, fired if family broke the law
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