Slide 1Slide 2Slide 3Slide 4Slide 5Slide 6Slide 7Slide 8Slide 9Slide 10Slide 11THE STALIN REVOLUTION (CON’T)THE GREAT TERRORTHE STALIN REVOLUTION (CON’T)THE GREAT TERROROrigins and Consequences Purge of Party members Targets:Sergei Kirov, killed Dec. 1934Lev Kamenev, executed 1936Grigorii Zinoviev, executed 1936Stalin accuses at a “show trial”THE STALIN REVOLUTION (CON’T)THE GREAT TERROROrigins and Consequences Army (especially officers) Targets:Marshal Mikhail Tukhashevky, executed 1937THE STALIN REVOLUTION (CON’T)THE GREAT TERROROrigins and Consequences Intellectuals, artists, writers, religious figures Targets:Poet Osip Mandelstam, executed 1938THE STALIN REVOLUTION (CON’T)THE GREAT TERROROrigins and Consequences Those who expressed opposition Targets:Arrival at the GULAGTHE STALIN REVOLUTION (CON’T)THE GREAT TERROROrigins and Consequences NKVD Targets:Lavrenti BeriaNikolai Ezhov, head of the NKVD, executed 1939“Ezhovshchina”THE STALIN REVOLUTION (CON’T)THE GREAT TERROR Numbers of victims Myths & Controversies:THE STALIN REVOLUTION (CON’T)THE GREAT TERROR Reduced country to stunned silence Myths & Controversies:“Black Ravens” Victims innocent of any opposition to StalinWorkers vote for death penaltyTHE STALIN REVOLUTION (CON’T)THE GREAT TERROR Terror entirely directed from center (i.e. by Stalin) Myths & Controversies:Stalin signing death warrantPurge committeeTHE STALIN REVOLUTION (CON’T)THE GREAT TERROR Creation of new consciousness Myths & Controversies:THE STALIN REVOLUTION (CON’T)THE GREAT TERROR Myths & Controversies: Break with international communism Break with
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