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Pregunta | Respuesta |
What two things happened in Stalin's life during 1931-32? | Some Communist Party members criticised him and his wife committed suicide |
Who started gaining support in 1934? | Sergei Kirov, Party leader in Leningrad |
When Kirov was assassinated, what did Stalin claim? | It was evidence of a Trotskyite plot |
What did he use this as an excuse to do? | Purge the party |
What did he want to become? | The last of the Old Bolsheviks |
How many Party members did the NKVD round up? | Thousands including their neighbours, relatives and acquiantances |
What was done with most of them? | They were put in slave labour camps |
Where did Stalin organise the show trials? | Moscow |
Who went on trial in August 1936? | Some party members including Zinoviev and Kamenev |
Who was the state prosecutor? | Vyshinsky |
What did he accuse them of? | Killing Kirov, plotting to kill Stalin and Lenin and conspiring with Trotsky |
What had occurred months before? | Physical and psychological torture and family threats |
What happened at the trial? | They all were accused guilty and sentenced to death and executed at once |
How did foreign observers react to the first trial? | They were convinced the men received a fair trial and sentence |
When did the second show trial begin? | January, 1937 |
Who were put on trial? One name | 17 Bolsheviks. Karl Radek |
Why did Radek get sent to labour camp where he died? | He implicated others |
What did Stalin fear? | The Red Army's power |
Who was arrested, tried and shot in secret in 1937? | Marshal Tukhachevsky |
What did this do to the Red Army? | Weakened it greatly whilst Hitler was threatening USSR |
When did the Great Show Trial take place? | March 1938 |
Who were on trial? | A critic of Stalin, Bukharin, and Yagoda who was head of NKVD |
What were they accused of? | Spying, sabotage, working with Trotsky and Hitler |
What did Bukharin do? | Insist innocence until his baby and wife were threatened |
Why did he confess? | Stalin promised not to harm them |
What did Stalin eventually do? | Sent Yagoda's wife to a labour camp |
How many men in total were brought up before the Show Trials? How many were executed? | 54 47 |
How many were arrested? | About 5 million |
What did Stalin do after the second world war? | Reopened labour camps and continued purging |
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