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Prelude to the Great Purge | Stalin turns on his allies + Stalin's Great Purge | The Great Terror (1932-1940)

After Stalin got rid of Trotsky, though Trotsky was still influencing Soviet politics through writing and publishing articles ...
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Prelude to the great purge | Stalin turns on his allies

After Stalin got rid of Trotsky, though Trotsky was still influencing Soviet politics through writing and publishing articles ...
Minnesota Daily

For first time, Putin publicly commemorates victims of Stalin era’s Great Purge

.MOSCOW (AP) – President Vladimir Putin warned Tuesday against political ideas that are “placed above basic values” as he for the first time joined public commemorations on the 70th anniversary of ...
The Conversation

Is Putin drawing inspiration from Stalin’s military purge? Despite parallels, probably not

Oleksa Drachewych does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
Defense One

Ideological purges reduce deterrence, readiness, and effectiveness. Just ask Stalin

History is replete with cautionary tales about the dangers of ideological purges, particularly when they target national-security institutions. One of the starkest examples comes from the Soviet Union ...
The National Interest

The Great Purge

Beginning in 1936, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin set about deliberately murdering 700,000 people in the Great Purge, an act of mass killing that “constituted a form of rule” unto itself, ...
The New Criterion

Inhuman power of the lie: “The Great Terror” at 40

I met Robert Conquest two summers ago in Palo Alto, which he has made his home, as a fellow of Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, for the past two decades. Christopher Hitchens had sent ...