Search results
1 day ago · ] Out of six members of the original Politburo during the October Revolution who lived until the Great Purge, Stalin himself was the only one who remained in the Soviet Union, alive. Four of the other five were executed; the fifth, Leon Trotsky , had been forced into exile outside the Soviet Union in 1929, but was assassinated in Mexico by ...
- Simple English
Deaths: 950,000 to 1.2 million (higher estimates overlap...
- Nikolai Yezhov
Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov (Russian: Николай Иванович Ежов,...
- Gas Vans
Burned-out Magirus-Deutz furniture mover van near Chełmno...
- Mikhail Tukhachevsky
Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky (Russian: Михаил...
- Mass Operations of The Nkvd
Mass operations of the People's Comissariate of Internal...
- Volga Germans
The Volga Germans (German: Wolgadeutsche, pronounced...
- Genrikh Yagoda
Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda (Russian: Ге́нрих Григо́рьевич...
- Simple English
People also ask
When did the rehabilitation of Russian generals start?
Did Russia's alleged prejudices contribute to the Great Purge?
What did Stalin mean by repression?
Did Stalin arrange the murder of Sergey Kirov?
1 day ago · The Anglo-Saxon term crīstendōm appears to have been coined in the 9th century by a scribe somewhere in southern England, possibly at the court of king Alfred the Great of Wessex. The scribe was translating Paulus Orosius ' book History Against the Pagans ( c. 416) and in need for a term to express the concept of the universal culture focused ...
