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Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov (Russian: Николай Иванович Ежов, IPA: [nʲɪkɐˈɫaj ɪˈvanəvʲɪt͡ɕ (j)ɪˈʐof]; 1 May 1895 – 4 February 1940) was a Soviet secret police official under Joseph Stalin who was head of the NKVD from 1936 to 1938, during the height of the Great Purge.
Sep 10, 2021 · Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov (1895-1940) was, in his prime, the head of the infamous Soviet secret police, the NKVD, and a confidant of Stalin himself. He was a key perpetrator and the namesake of the Yezhovshchina, the Great Terror of 1936-1938, earning him the nickname “The Bloody Dwarf” in reference to his small stature.
Nikolay Ivanovich Yezhov (born 1895, St. Petersburg, Russia—died early February 1940) was a Russian Communist Party official who, while chief of the Soviet security police (NKVD) from 1936 to 1938, administered the most severe stage of the great purges, known as Yezhovshchina (or Ezhovshchina).
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Nikolai Yezhov. In July 1936 Yezhov told Gregory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev that their children would be charged with being part of the conspiracy and would face execution if found guilty. The two men now agreed to co-operate at the trial if Stalin promised to spare their lives.
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yezhov, nikolai ivanovich (1895 – 1940), USSR State Security chief (1936 – 1938); organizer of the Great Terror of 1937 – 1938. Of humble origins and scant education, Nikolai Yezhov rose from tailor to industrial worker, soldier, and Red Army and Communist Party functionary.
Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov (Russian : Николай Иванович Ежов : May 1, 1895 in St Petersburg,Russian Empire – February 4,in Moscow, RSFSR, Soviet Union 1940) was the leader of the Soviet secret police called the NKVD. He worked for Joseph Stalin from 1936 to 1938, during the Great Purge.
During the Russian Civil War, he was a political commissar in the Red Army. He then worked for the Communist Party's Central Committee, becoming a member in 1934. Yezhov became the head of the NKVD as People's Commissar for Internal Affairs in 1936. In this capacity, he led Stalin's terror campaign.
Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov was a Soviet secret police official under Joseph Stalin who was head of the NKVD from 1936 to 1938, during the height of the Great Purge.
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Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov was born in Marijampole, Lithuania, the extremely short son of simple parents. Without finishing primary school, he was apprenticed to a tailor, later becoming an industrial worker in the Russian capital, Petrograd, and a soldier after the outbreak of World War I.
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Jan 1, 2008 · The definitive study of Nikolai Yezhov's rise to become the chief of Stalin's secret police--and the dictator's "iron fist"--during the Great Terror. Head of...
