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Yezhovshchina - Coggle Diagram
Yezhovshchina
Impact
Political Impact
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Party loyalty based on fear, not ideology
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“While the purges consolidated Stalin’s power, they did so at immense human, military, and economic cost.”
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Gulags
What were the Gulags?
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Used prisoners for:
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Infrastructure (canals, railways)
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Terror at a local level
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“At local level, terror developed a momentum of its own, driven by quotas, ambition, and fear.”
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Trotsky death
Background
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Exiled:
1929 → Turkey, France, Norway, Mexico
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What is Yezhovshchina?
Named after Nikolai Yezhov, head of the NKVD (1936–38)
Period of mass, systematic terror across the USSR
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👉 Terror became routine and bureaucratic, not exceptional.